At the Munich Security Conference, CIA asset Elissa Slotkin — who to our shame, represents Michigan in the U.S. Senate — made a remark on global democracies, especially mentioning India, insulting the nation of a billion people by saying that “democracy does not put food on the table.”
Humiliating the U.S. Senator who was out of her depth, India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar delivered a brutal riposte:
“Senator, you said that democracy doesn’t put food on your table. Actually, in my part of the world, it does– because it actually, today because we are a democratic society, we give nutrition support, and food to 800 million people and for whom that is a matter of how healthy they are and how full their stomachs are. So, the point I want to make is look different parts of the world are going through different conversations. Please do not assume that this is a kind of universal phenomenon. It is not.
“There are parts where it is working well, maybe there are parts where it’s not and the parts which are not, I think people need to have honest conversations about why it is not but I would argue that as to an extent as someone dispassionately viewing it, which was your question, there are some problems, a lot of it is a accumulated problem of the model of globalization that we have followed for the last 25–30 years. I think a lot of chickens have come home to roost. So, yes, there are issues, but from our point of view today not all over the world but let’s not make that universal.”
Jaishankar went on to belittle corrupt American elections by pointing out that India can hold elections that report the results on the night of the election.
I appeared to be an optimist in what is relatively a pessimistic panel, if not room. I will begin by sticking up my finger and don’t take it badly, it is the index finger. This, the mark you see on my nail, is a mark of a person who has just voted. We just had an election in my state just over. Last year, we had a national election. In Indian elections, roughly two-thirds of the eligible voters vote. At the national elections, the electorate of about 900 million, about 700 million voted. We count the votes in a single day.
Elissa Slotkin is an embarrassment to the United States and a laughingstock on the world stage.
