The effort and cash to solve it will entail a devotion to strategic autonomy saar.
That's only one aspect of it ,the other being the current international geo political environment among several other such parameters to be considered.
Besides the strategic autonomy is a spectrum, you have France on one end because of economical and industrial pressures cannot openly _|_ to the US, which is why you have them kanging on "muh fellow Europeans" now, most of the countries in EU are US vassals after all, an EU under French leadership ofc is the only proper expression of strategic autonomy
France also had a neo colonial empire in Africa which not many know about or if they did , didn't factor it into their calculations , which in turn enabled the former to maintain a certain degree of strategic autonomy.
The idea was to leverage this neo colonial empire till they got the rest of Europe to emerge as an independent sphere of interest under France's leadership obviously , in a sort of pan European empire a la Napoleon Bonaparte II as it were .
Alas , growing frustration with outsized French influence in their internal affairs by the African nations comprising their neo colonial empire & Russia smarting from the betrayal by the Europeans resulting in the war in Ukraine paying back France by stirring unrest in their neo colonial empire apart from prosecuting the war Ukraine ensures neither exists.
However they push back like they did when US wanted to invade Eye-rack to get Saddam, they are also willing to sell to naaan-aligned countries like ours today and in the past also.
Germany refused to participate too. Didn't seem as if Germany was emerging as an independent pole then.
After these guys you have Israel for the ((( obvious reasons ))) can push back even harder against the US if they wish to.
This cosy relationship isn't going to continue for long. This is probably the last generation of Americans who'd be giving the Zionists a free pass.
At the end of this spectrum you have the 10 foot Chinaman who has economic leverage on the W*st and a fully domestic military industrial supply chain.
Our goal should be to reach the China man's gold standard atleast in terms of MIC
The west isn't going to commit the same error twice. They made a grave mistake possibly a fatal one with China. Do you think they're stupid enough to repeat it ?
We still face a hard block to strategic autonomy in the form of energy impoorts, coal, oil, gas what have you.
Oil & gas will cease being premier commodities within a decade or two. It's high tech , finance & market access we're after . The kind which got China to where it is except as I pointed out before the West isn't going to make the same mistake twice.
How we navigate this while keeping our eye on our goals without compromising our interests is what will determine where we land up in a decade or two. So far I'd venture we haven't done too badly at all.
In fact in an interview S.S.Menon ex FS & NSA gave some time back he identified only nations which have profited the most from globalisation. India & the other country to have done even better than us is China.
However IMO China's bitten off much more than they can chew. They've outsized ambitions too & lack the strategic patience to wait it out. Result they've literally made enemies of all their neighbours , they've no friends & the ones they have are more of international liabilities & embarassments.
Sort of surprising a nation with a 3000+ year old history of strategic culture could get things so wrong.
