British took away $45 trillion out of India says External Affairs Minister S.Jaishankar

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar in an event at the Atlantic Council in Washington DC, talked about how India experienced two centuries of humiliation under the West. An economic study tried to estimate how much British took out of India and it ended up at a number of $45 trillion in today's value.

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[rajeevlochanbehera]

Before him No other MEA has balls to tell that. This man is really daring one. 🙏👌👌👌👌

[BABA.BHARAT]

Modi's decision to take him as foreign minister was a real masterstroke👍

[wavezindia]

Even you hate Modi You cannot Question these two Ministers:
1) S. Jaishankar
2) Nitin Gadkari

[revanthsai]

They even have a british museum in london full of indian artifacts.

[mirahindustani]

wow.... finally India is speaking up for itself!! love it.... getting stronger and stronger by the day

[jamesst.george]

He is 100% correct two centuries of humiliation. In the name of modernization, many colonized countries had to suffer and benig inferior. Time for India to rise and demand a seat at the round table.

[nik]

At least India speaking effect of colonial past...never heard any government shouted against it....India gaining self-confidence

[RaviKiranMolakala]

Rarely I admire a person in the government but this guy is too good to this post.

[daning]

I am a Chinese, and I admire this foreign minister who knows how to protect his own country from the West!

[pallavishinde]

Looks like we have finally moved ahead to discuss history after Mughals and before Nehru

[sourabhbhattacharya]

At least someone is vocal about past and factual. Every time an Indian talks about past he is silenced, why? Just speak the facts which is verifiable.

[satyabratasarkar]

My God! He has the guts to speak like no one has ever done before! Right from 1947 to till date. Believe me, India is now opening up and that's awesome! Most of us have ached within to hear those lines, which most of our leaders hadn't, maybe due to vested interests bla bla bla

[prakashamin]

Very befitting answer to all those foreign media who used to show poverty in India all these years. India is heard today at every global platform. Changes happen when you give opportunity to right person. You really changed world perception about India.

[meenuyadav-wxyn]

I love this man...I don't have much intrst in politics but recently watching his interview i got intrst in politics specially in international relations...

[senaalwis]

I am a Sri Lankan who is overwhelmed by your comments. Congratulations for giving back to the west earful of things that they didn't want to hear.
Our spineless politicians in Sri Lanka go to the west with backs bent.

[プージャ-jj]

India is like my second home I lived there for 1 year ❤️
Love you india from USA 🇺🇲❤️🇮🇳

[Chetak_Octb]

British made us suffer, fate will do same to them

[davu]

From 1964 to 1973, the U.S. dropped more than two million tons of ordnance on Laos during 580, 000 bombing missions—equal to a planeload of bombs every 8 minutes, 24-hours a day, for 9 years – making Laos the most heavily bombed country per capita in history. The bombings were part of the U.S. Secret War in Laos to support the Royal Lao Government against the Pathet Lao and to interdict traffic along the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
The bombings destroyed many villages and displaced hundreds of thousands of Lao civilians during the nine-year period.

Five years ago, the US forces, using the fake intelligence of a staged video by “White Helmets” as evidence, conducted the so-called “most precise air strikes in history” in Syria, killing more than 1, 600 innocent civilians. In recent years, the international community has been calling for investigations into the killing of civilians in the US’ overseas military operations. On Syria alone, the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic pointed out several times in its reports in September 2019 and February 2021 that the US failed to distinguish military targets from civilians in its air strikes in Syria, which gravely violates international humanitarian law and may constitute war crimes.
However, the US government has been turning a deaf ear to all this. 

According to reports, over the past nearly two decades, the US conducted over 90, 000 air strikes in countries including Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, which may have killed up to 48, 000 civilians. But the US military time and again covered up the facts and refused to apologize, admit its crimes or hold the perpetrators accountable. It did everything possible to evade its responsibilities. On the drone strike of civilians in Afghanistan, a Pentagon spokesperson said openly in December 2021 that no US soldiers will face disciplinary action over it.

The US media also disclosed at the end of last year that from 2014 to 2019, the US military turned its guns on farmers in the middle of harvest, children playing in the streets, families fleeing the fighting and villagers taking shelter in buildings. These disastrous crimes were deliberately concealed and whitewashed. US media revealed last year that according to the US military’s own confidential assessments of more than 1, 300 reports of civilian casualties, civilian casualties in US air strikes have been “significantly undercounted”.
Larry Lewis, a Director at the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA) of the US said that on average at least one incident of civilian harm has happened every week since 9/11. There has been an overall pattern of negligence with regard to the US government on the issue of civilian harm.

The US has also obstructed the International Criminal Court’s investigations into its war crimes in Afghanistan.  Every human life, regardless of nationality, race, religion or values, is equal and precious. The US should earnestly respond to the strong call of the international community, conduct a credible, independent and impartial investigation into civilian casualties caused by US air strikes, and hold the people concerned accountable.

The truth of the matter is that politicians in the West and the US including Australia (Australia which is psychologically totally confused and suffering from an identity crisis as it thinks it is "west" when the reality is that it is geographically part of Asia!!!), are still stuck in their mental capacity and attitude in the glory days of "empire" 5-6 centuries ago. They may have learned to wear Gucci suits nowadays but nothing else seem to have evolved in their psyche and consciousness from their barbarian days.
Instead of recognising their sordid past and history, they celebrate their delusions like "Thanksgiving Day" which the Native American Indians rightly and clearly remember and commemorate as their "Day of Mourning" being the beginning of the murdering, genociding, plundering, stealing, raping and ultimately, OCCUPATION, of their land uninvited, without any due compensation even till today. But these thieves and robbers take a lot of pride in the stories they tell themselves and sell to the world how great their "founding" was!!! Same stories with the "Empire" where the sun never sets. Australia with the Aborigines. New Zealand with their Maoris. The African continent with all those goes on and on. This is the 21st Century, for chrissakes! Grow up and come out of that sick and primitive mentality of never ending desire to dominate, control and subjugate.

The zillions of dollars spent on wars and "defence" and the other zillions being hoarded by the 1% is more than sufficient to provide every human being on the planet a very decent and never anything wanting life on this planet with the healthiest and cleanest environment. And we pride ourselves as being the only creature on earth with the intelligence, consciousness and capacity of free will and choice. And these sick politicians choose never ending squabbles, tensions and wars!!! Go figure.

[pavankumar-nwvd]

I agree with our minister jai shankar, British really did stole indian's money.
Jai Hind.

[vigneshbabu]

Inspite of taking 45 trillion dollars from india, still india is going to overtake Britain in economic size in few years. Jai Hind 🇮🇳