Are you telling me that if we support autocratic ethnonationalist strongmen who target minorities and political opponents with violence...
... it might hurt an American??? /s
I didn't read this article. What the hell? He's doing all this shit out in the open. It's not a darker side, it's just his front-facing side.
I know it's just the the internet but I remember when this guy was first elected this was the direction Indians commenting on politics feared. He's always been a populist authoritarian. Crazy how far his reach is though.
The Behind the Bastards podcast goes into another aspect of this repression, of paying mercenary hackers to target minorities. And it has intensified under Modi.