Greed and Fair dealing
Once in the city of Boston, USA, there lived two traveling merchants who sold brass and tin ware. One was honest and fair in all his dealings, but the other was consumed by greed, always seeking to pay the lowest price or acquire goods for free. One day, the greedy merchant passed a small, impoverished home where an old woman and her granddaughter lived, possessing nothing but an old plate they believed was brass. The granddaughter called out to him, offering the plate in trade for a trifle. The greedy merchant instantly recognized, by scratching the plate, that it was pure gold. Driven by his desire to steal it, he falsely declared the plate worthless, threw it to the ground, and stormed away, planning to return later and buy it for a mere fraction of a penny.Shortly after, the honest merchant walked down the same street. The old woman, at her granddaughter’s urging, hesitantly showed him the plate, recounting how the previous man had scorned it. The honest merchant, being a man of integrity, immediately exclaimed that the plate was gold and was worth far more than all the goods he carried. He told them the full truth of its immense value. To ensure the poor family received justice, he emptied his entire stock and money bag, keeping only eight pennies to pay his boatman to cross the river, and gave everything to the grateful grandmother.The honest merchant went to the riverbank and paid his fare. Meanwhile, the greedy merchant returned to the old woman’s house, offering a paltry sum for the supposed “worthless” plate. When the grandmother informed him that a truthful merchant had just paid full value and taken the plate, the greedy man was overcome with shock and blinding rage. He realized his avarice had cost him a massive fortune. Cursing his rival and himself for his own foolish greed, the merchant’s heart failed him on the spot. He collapsed and died right on the riverbank, a victim of his own destructive and uncontrollable envy.Now see the comparison in USA:USA administration did not sanction Russian Oil and encouraged India to buy the Oil to maintain prices. Now it turned around the policy and wants India to open it’s fragile Agricultural Product Market for USA’s industrial scale greedy agriculturists’ constituency who sell genetically modified grains. India refused. Then USA demanded that India should stop buying Russian Crude Oil. When India refused to budge, the rhetoric followed.To add insult to injury, India perhaps destroyed American Nuclear facility in Kirana Hills, Pakistan with precision on May7-9 this year 2025 in operation Sindoor an successfully defended swarms of drones with some new detection and shooting down technique. USA, own best plane F35 was disabled in on a reconnaissance mission in Kerala, India. USA could only shrug and step back.Rhetoric by USA
Howard Lutnick, the USA Commerce Secretary, made a comments in an interview with NewsNation, which was reported on or around Sunday, September 28, 2025. He said that “We have a bunch of countries to fix, like Switzerland, Brazil, like India. These are countries that need to really react correctly to America.”They “need to open their markets and stop taking actions that harm America.” He was speaking in the context of trade tensions, tariffs imposed by the US, and India’s purchases of Russian crude oil, stating that countries that want to sell to the US consumer “have to play ball with the president of the United States.”
Navarro stated, “The Brahmins are profiteering at the expense of the Indian people,” while justifying US tariffs on Indian goods. The remark has been condemned by Hindu organizations as a slur and Hinduphobic, comparable to an anti-Semitic trope, although some reports noted the word “Brahmins” is also used in the USA as a metaphor for elites (“Boston Brahmins”) but he was speaking to people of India not of Boston.
On Geopolitical Alignment he criticized India’s relationship with Russia and China, saying, “I don’t understand why [Prime Minister Modi] is getting into bed with Putin and Xi Jinping when he’s the biggest democracy in the world.”
President Donald Trump disparaged India’s economy as a “ dead economy ” on social media. He mockingly suggested India might one day need to purchase oil from Pakistan. He claimed India is expected to cut approximately 40% of its oil purchases from Russia .
Former White House hawks, including Kevin Hassett and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, were reported to have joined the “barrage of attacks,” mocking the Indian rupee and even branding the Ukraine conflict as “ Modi’s War .”
I am concerned for the health of these persons. Take care of your health.