India-Canada Row: What's at stake for Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau?
PTI. The United States has made clear that it expects the Indian government to work with Canada on efforts to investigate the possible involvement of New Delhi.
However, on Saturday, Former Pentagon official Michael Rubin said that if the US has to choose between Canada and India, it will choose India as the relationship is "too important." Michael Rubin is a former Pentagon official and senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute Specialisation in Iran, Turkey, and South Asia. He also argued that India is strategically more important than Canada and that Ottawa picking a fight with India is like "an ant picking a fight against an elephant." While speaking to news agency ANI, Rubin said, “I suspect that the United States doesn't want to be painted a corner to choose between two friends.
But if we have to choose between two friends, increasingly we're going to choose India on this matter, simply because Nijjar was a terrorist, and India is too important. Our relationship is too important." The former Pentagon official further slammed Trudeau and said that Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a khalistani terrorist allegedly killed by his erstwhile comrades, is not a model to use for “human rights" and he was a terrorist involved in multiple attacks.
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