The United States is the world’s oldest, most powerful, and most consequential democracy for the future of free peoples everywhere. India is the world’s most populous, rambunctious, exuberant, and infuriating democracy whose greatest symbolic significance has been as a standing refutation of the facile thesis that liberal democracy dooms poor developing countries to failure.
The US is crucial for the continued lifting of millions of Indians out of Asiatic poverty and for strengthening India’s preparedness against many external security threats.
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