India’s External Affairs Minister humiliates dimwitted Senator Elissa Slotkin

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.