India’s Geopolitical Paranoia: Is the World Really Out to Get New Delhi?

Let’s stop pretending India’s strategic anxieties automatically become Washington’s priorities.

A Loan to Pakistan. A Gift to Bangladesh. Missiles to Turkey. All Anti-India?

India’s foreign policy establishment has developed a reflex. Anytime Washington sneezes in the direction of South Asia, New Delhi assumes the fever is about Pakistan. Or worse — about India itself.

Why India Sees a Conspiracy in US-Backed Moves-and Why Washington Might Not Care

This week, it happened again. The U.S.-backed IMF approved a $1.4 billion loan to Pakistan on May 9, 2025. Cue the headlines in Indian media. “Funds for Terrorism,” “Rewarding a Rogue State,” “A Slap to India.”

Barely five days later, Bangladesh got $1.3 billion, under a new IMF program. Again, suspicion flared. PM Eunice has leaned closer to Pakistan and China. She’s made inflammatory remarks about India’s northeastern borders. India sees her as hostile. The loan? Interpreted as Western approval of Dhaka’s pivot.

Then came the clincher. The U.S. finalized a $225 million missile sale to Turkey — a country that has openly backed Pakistan in past…