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This is actually another video about the India Moon mission, but it's got sent this quite a bit, and it's a follow-up, but it's why is the West questioning India's achievements. Who in the West is questioning their achievements? I think we'll find out. I think you've seen this reporter before, and so it's the female, and I believe we've seen her before. So you might recognize her. It got sent this quite a bit, and so I don't know exactly. I think it has something to do with the Moon, but I don't know if it's everything to do with the Moon landing, and I don't know if the West is America or if it's England. Europe, there's a whole lot to lump in that category. What it is, but let's just figure out about... Unless this is about Kanye, which would be a big shock. Why is Kanye questioning them? Yeah, why is Kanye West questioning? Let's start our next story from the New York Times. It shows two men sitting inside a room. It's called the Elite Space Club. One of them is reading a newspaper. Yikes. The headline says India's Mars mission. It is shown as a man with a cow. India is shown as a man with a cow knocking on the door. I'm sure you'll agree that this is racist, and in very poor ways. I don't. I'm sure you've seen the cartoon before. I think it's the fact that they're... I don't. They're depicting India as a man with a cow. When the New York Times published something that is more in tune with reality. I'd love to hear from the person who's... Because the West is back to playing its old games, discrediting India's achievements, and questioning India's motives. Let me lay out the facts first. Chandrayaan 3 is an Indian mission in space. That's true. It is the world's first to land on the moon's south pole. That's true. This is a fact. As we speak, the Pragyan rover is out exploring, looking for traces of water. This too is a fact. Oh, that's cool. I hope you didn't see that one. Also, there's a pride for India. A big achievement for science and a gift to the world. With skepticism, condescension, and their trademark hypocrisy, listen to this. As they spend their money on space probes, as they spend their money on the military, they spend their money on nuclear weapons, still half of the country lives below the poverty line. But the biggest injustice of all... Is what? That was Nigel Farage, the man who heralded Brexit, a politician known for his scandals and his hypocrisy. He says India is wasting money on space missions. Why? Because half of its population lives in poverty. The racism is shining through. Also, the utter disconnect with reality. We are happy to share some facts with Mr Farage. It may have slipped his notice that India is the world's fifth largest economy. It is, in fact, ahead of his country, the United Kingdom. But it seems he can't get rid of his colonial mindset. I mean, how can poor India have aspirations? How can a former colony reach the moon before the so-called Great Britain? And since he's so keen on discussing priorities, we have a question for you. Just look up at the end. Why does Britain keep paying for the royal family? The citizens cannot afford the electricity bills. That's definitely true. I definitely don't understand the royal family for sure. Let me show you another bizarre comment. This is from a man called Patrick Christie. He calls himself a journalist, and this is what he said. Congratulations, India, on landing on the dark side of the moon. I would also like to now invite, indeed, you to return the £2.3 billion foreign aid money that we sent them between 2016 and 2021, or also set to give them £57 million next year. I think the British taxpayer should keep hold of that. Don't you? We should not be giving money to countries with a space programme. As a rule, if you could afford to fire a rocket at the dark side of the moon, you shouldn't be coming to us with your handout. If you can afford to fire a rocket, you shouldn't be coming to us with your handout for foreign aid. Those were his words. But is India going to the UK for foreign aid? It's had the answer from their own foreign office. This is what they said, and I'm quoting. Since 2015, the UK has given no financial aid to the government of India. Most of our funding now is focused on business investments which help create new markets and jobs for the UK as well as India. This is what their foreign office has sent. Christie's also mentioned a figure, £2.3 billion. What about that? It's from a report by the UK aid spending watchdog ICAI, and Patrick Christie's clearly did not read the whole report, but we did it for him. The figure is not foreign aid, it includes investments and revenue through multilateral channels. The same report notes that this aid is a tool of UK foreign policy, basically a way to stay in New Delhi's good books. Also no one is begging for it. But who will explain that to the West? In their mind, this is still the Raj, and these are comments that would have made Churchill happy. But we are happy to burst their bubble. This is the 21st century, India has a global power, not a former impoverished colony. In 2011, then Finance Minister of India Pranamukerji told the UK that India does not need its aid, and London admitted that the aid had no impact on India's development. Now India has landed on the moon, and British influencers say, return our aid money. If you're going down that road, let's start with reparations. Let's start with the colonial loot. Return that money first, and we have the bill. Some $45 trillion, that's what Britain looted from India between 1765 and 1938, and this is just an estimate. The actual figure could be much higher. But even this $45 trillion is about 15 times Britain's GDP. How about London returns this money first? Instead of discrediting India's achievement with juvenile conspiracy theories, look at this one now. It says, India faked the moon landing. What do you even say to this? I wonder if that was the guy that was referring to in the first video. It shows the Pragyan rover rolling out of the lander, moving on the surface of the moon, leaving India's mark literally and creating history. We know all of this. We don't need validation from the West or cartoons from their press, but we must set the record straight. We need to take control of our stories, we say. Else we'll be held hostage to narratives created by others. We'll be trapped in their version of our truth. Gotcha. So yeah, it is, I guess, a lot of the British guy. What were you looking up about the cartoon at the beginning? I wanted to see the context of the cartoon, and I would have loved to have heard from the person who wrote it as to what they were wanting to convey. Because there's two like most good political satire cartoons. There's more than one message being conveyed. And it would be interesting to know what was the point of the drawing. Yeah, because when I saw the drawing, it spoke to me very specific intentional stereotyping to accentuate the point that for so, so long, the West has made this elitist status of themselves and relegated India to the stereotype knocking at the door. And within that imagery comes the messaging of, not only are your stereotypes wrong, they're not just knocking at the door, they're leading. I don't think like most political satire cartoons, it's not to be taken at face value. There's other messaging that's far more important than what you're seeing at face value. Absolutely. It would be interesting to know this. Yeah, I'd love to know that. And the other thing is, yes, on the one hand, it's ridiculous for, if anybody's going to have a say about what India is doing with its own money, it should be Indians, not someone from outside the country. But the other thing I'm not a fan of is quoting individual people whom I don't know who they are, and then making a blanket statement and saying, this is how the West thinks of us. That is completely irresponsible. Because that's not true. That's not how the entirety of the West thinks about India. Are there a huge number of people that think that way? Of course. I just don't think it does anybody... There's nothing about that video in and of itself that's going to do anything other than piss people off. Yeah. I think on the... And you made it obviously good point, and I would love to know the actual intention of the cartoon. Because I think the reason a lot of people might have been upset is that just like in Slumdog Millionaire, it shows India as this third world country that is carrying around cows, and they're just poor farmers, all of them. I think that's the main... And if that is the intent, and if that's all that is, then yes, that is completely imbecilic and short-sighted and insulting. As opposed to showing them in the cartoon as, you know... What are the IS? I don't know the name of the NASA India. The only reason I call them a NASA is because I don't know their actual name. And I think it's IS something, something, something. Whatever the acronym for their space program is. So I think that was the main issue behind that. Anytime India... I mean, Britain talks about any money from India or to India. I think obviously that's a laughable thing. Yeah. If there's any place in the world that has zero, zero credibility in criticizing India for anything that India does, it's great. They should still be sending reparations. I mean, they should probably be sending reparations to most of the world. They should do what they should have done a long time ago, is that they should just mind their own business and focus on any country that has a space program, any person can stand up and point a finger and say you should have been using that money for filling the blank. It doesn't require much critical thinking to do that, nor does it require any courage to point out something like that. It's stupid. So yeah, England, anybody. But again, this blanket statement of why is the West questioning India's achievements to take a couple of things, the first one being the New York Times political satire thing, which I would really love to know. I have a supposition behind that. If it is at face value, it is inappropriate, but most satire, as I said, is not at face value. Yeah, secondarily, to take quotes from a few people in the West who I don't know who they are and they're particularly British and lump that into the totality of the West as questioning India's achievements only feeds this us and them mentality which we need way less of in the world. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, I agree. I absolutely agree. So you guys can let us know, obviously, your thoughts on that and if you know any of the questions that we had, obviously, please answer those for us. Originally, I asked if it was New York Times. If it was a certain publication, I could probably have told you what their intent was New York Times I don't know as much about in terms of... Because certain ones have a certain political backing that you know exactly where they're coming from. Yes. New York Times is not really... I think it was created as an article or a big budget. Yeah, there's the thing. I'm looking... Regardless, just let us know and we'll obviously look it up ourselves. The intent of the cartoonist was to highlight how space exploration is no longer the exclusive domain of rich Western countries. Okay, I am pretty sure that the intent of that is a message to the Western elites and saying this is the way you view the world, but if you look at the real messaging here, they're not just knocking at the door. In the same way, they're not just these cow-toting people. I think the complete intent of the article was... And the cartoon was missed. Like I said, though, that just like in Slumdog Millionaire, they're showing everybody, the stereotype that everybody still thinks about India is... Right. They're cow-toting. Slumdog was in satire. I know. I think that's just most people's frustration. I think if they showed just an India man with the ISO knocking at the door, I don't think people would be as... But then you don't get the intent behind the political... That's the point of political satire. It's the messaging of showing you the stereotype in order to try and break the stereotype. But this video and the outrage is saying it's a literal degradation of people by stereotype and it's the exact opposite. Well, obviously, let us know what you think about it and any other else we need to know in any other videos we can rack to down below. And also, once again, congratulations India. Congratulations India. Yes.