The Defense Post: Congress Must Oppose US $4B Drone Sale to India

By Rasheed Ahmed

In January, President Joe Biden publicized the sale of $4 billion in drones and missiles to India, one of the largest weapons deals in recent US history and certainly the largest to New Delhi.

Framed as a symbol of the US and India’s growing partnership, there is little to celebrate in the massive transfer of advanced weaponry to a country that has made the violent persecution of minorities its official policy.

Over the last decade of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rule, his government has used other foreign tech to target its own citizens, deploying British JCB bulldozers to destroy thousands of Muslim-owned homes and utilizing Israeli Pegasus spyware to surveil activists and journalists.

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