In 1947, Muslims comprised around 95 million of India’s population of 320 million. One of the little known facts about India’s partition and the creation of Pakistan is that very few Indian Muslims voted for a separate homeland. He said on August 9, 1945: “The British talk of Hindu-Muslim quarrels, but who has thrust the burden on their shoulders? Give me just a week’s rule over Britain I will create such disagreements that England, Wales and Scotland will fight one another forever.” The British role in India’s division is best summed up by free India’s first interior minister Sardar Patel. Similarly, in pre-independence India it was a small number of Muslims – carefully picked by the British – who voted for Pakistan. In Ukraine a small – but vocal and violent – mob comprising ultra-nationalists and opportunists, backed and armed by Americans, has conducted a successful coup against a democratically elected government. The American role in Ukraine, where they have armed a bunch of street thugs and neo-Nazis to hold an entire country hostage, has an uncanny parallel to Britain’s role in the partition of India in 1947. When a shell-shocked Britain retired hurt after WW II, its imperial role was usurped by the United States, which has since intervened in dozens of countries. Colonial Britain perfected the art of splitting countries and creating fault lines for the benefit of empire. This is deeply ironic because the Ukrainian capital Kiev – where the medieval state of Kievan Rus’ was based – is acknowledged as their historic homeland by the Slavs of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.īut this divide and conquer policy is nothing new for the West.
By taking sides in the political divide in Ukraine, the West has sent the country of 46 million hurtling towards fragmentation.
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