Oh bhai Saadi qaum ne gharat ho Jana hae. Iran must institute a cultural reset in our country. They must keep providing us affordable oil and gas and Russia must fund big infrastructure (controversial ) projects so we bypass the western stranglehold on us. And China must keep helping us financially so we maintain our sovereignty.
Look bro, this is the need of the hour. I don’t see anything else on da horizon for da moment.
Don’t forget, to our east we got a $5 trillion dollar economy chugging along, and da moment west cuts a deal wid da irani’s, theys goin become a $2 trillion economy overnight.
Our hukumraan need to factor in this geopolitical situation and make decisions.
We gotta find our footing bro it’s not looking too flash right now.
Your right that we have to factor in regional powers in our calculations, but the Russians and the Iranians are in deeper with India. These countries don’t trust us, and we shouldn’t trust them. Limited transactional deals, such as those that go along with China’s BRI make sense, but beyond that will cost the country more then it will benefit.
This is not to say Pakistan is well suited to jump in the US camp completely, it Pakistan needs to find its niche between China and the US.
What those to countries provide, we could do for ourselves if we just got a little better at taking care of our own business. Iran supplied 6 million liters a day (37,750 barrels of oil), worth about $3.3 million a day or about $1.2 billion in oil a year at the international market price, which is likely higher than it’s being sold at.
We have to move past “the need of the hour” and do real reforms to be able to grow our economy into the trillions of dollars a year a country of 250 million people should be at this point. The Iranians are not going to be a $2 trillion economy. They are going to be more international isolated, and so are the Russians. They are going deeper in the China bloc.
Western markets are still vital for most growth. They are still vital for china’s growth, so we should not downplay the importance of finding some kind of accommodation with the west, that doesn’t undermine our interests. That doesn’t mean bases or recognition of Israel, but it does mean being useful in facilitating trade to Central Asia and helping to build up the mining sector there. This will naturally be at the expense of Russian and Iranian influence, but it will help us find a symbiotic relationship to keep the afghans in check, especially if US, GCC, and Chinese companies are making a profit. We don’t directly antagonize any nation, but nor do we do direct major deals with Iran or Russia.
We have to study how India kept its relationship with Russia, especially in the US unipolar moment, the last 30 years, and build up enough leverage in the west to now be able to have its cake and eat it to; having robust relations with the west and Russia. It’s not all about China, but their economic progress is what attracts western companies and that attracts western governments to look favorably upon them.