The global news headlines were screaming, "US leadership on shaky ground".
Why, what went wrong after such aggressive bunker-busting machismo?
Apparently, the US Govt secretly cared for Austria. It had pretended to dislike Austria since 1918-1919, Ajit had been instructed not to give Antara her narrative on those grounds, "Why build up foolish dreams knowing how much the US Govt hated the lease and Austrians?"
Ajit did the needful yet Asansol AG Church remained uncomfortable. Something was not right, the pure hatred that ought to be obvious, whereby the US Govt would regularly arrange for floggings etc for Antara in India, those were not happening.
The NRI phenomenon from the 1980s was because Asansol AG Church was suspicious of the US Govt's true motives. Was it pretending, was it deceitful? What a terrible thing, given India was so free of falsehood and deceit.
The NRIs, over the next few decades, confirmed Asansol AG's worst fears. "There was some secret plan to favour Austria, there were hidden emotions, no govt official was discussing atrocities or punishment for Antara."
Why would it be so? Indians had always known there'd be two royal families outside India. The British royal family, which was one of their own. And the Prussian Hohenzollerns, who faked their own collapse. Between the loving care of the British and the Prussians, Asansol AG Church would march ahead with its banner, 'onwards do we go'.
It seemed that the US Govt needed a warning about Austria. Some of it was called the torture-surveillance against Antara but it was not properly understood.
ii. On December 1, 2007, Antara received a text message from NS Road on her mobile phone. It congratulated her on her wedding anniversary, Antara had wed the previous year, in Dec 2006.
Antara was disbelieving, NS Road wanted to wish her well on her marriage? It was the only time NS Road wished her, years passed and decades, anniversaries came and went, not another squeak out of NS Road. That's not the way wishing on anniversaries worked, one was supposed to remember and wish every year.
Something else must have happened on that day, Antara was being warned off, eleven years before she learnt her narrative. It turned out that on December 1, 2007, Vladimir Putin had signed a law, abolishing the Federal Atomic Energy Agency, transferring its power and assets to the newly created 'State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom'. A few days later, Rosatom became a State corporation.
So what of it? Putin was not a democratic person, he was liked in Kolkata, especially in the boys' schools, he liked 'juggling' things around. Whether it was the Federal Atomic Energy Agency or Rosatom, why warn Antara?
One possibility was that Putin was advising the US Congress about how to transfer power and assets from a legitimate authority to a newly-created authority.
For example, even as we wrote this, US Congressmen were writing legislations on sanctions against Rosatom. That was likely to be an alert for the NRIs in the US; when the Prussians went for the Treasury, to illicitly transfer its assets, they'd need a new agency or US corporation for the transfer. They might need several of these, if the assets were to keep moving from one corporation to the other till it ended up with NS Road and other Prussians.
Had DOGE been the new corporation within the US Govt? Why did it attract so much unnecessary attention? Was Elon Musk not supportive of NS Road or Asansol AG's plans regarding the Treasury? Musk created such a furore, it would take a while for the controversies to subside.
That left NASA and the various spin-off scientific companies it kept creating in its environment. NASA disliked the US Govt, it despised the US military, it might be willing to provide several companies, maybe a consortium, along the Federal Atomic Energy-Rosatom lines, for a complete destruction of the Treasury.
The NRIs would come back home once the Treasury was finished and NS Road-Putin emerged triumphant. Where would the NRI-loving Americans go? At least we could hurt Poland and Ukraine, even if we had to sacrifice the United States?
(Fyi: In 1975, the Khmer Rouge took power in Cambodia in April, Americans fled Vietnam soon after and India declared national emergency on June 25. These episodes were unconnected to NS Road.)
June 25, 2025.
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