What lies lie ahead? Truth is out there

Conflicting accounts emerge regarding the cessation of hostilities between India and Pakistan. Trump's camp asserts his offer of US trade access mediated the truce, while India's Jaishankar claims Pakistan initiated the peace overture. This discre...

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Boss, one of them is lying. Trump and his henchmen - from US commerce secretary Howard 'Yes, Big Don' Lutnick, to Pakistani PM Shehbaz 'Shabash, Don Mian!' Sharif. Or, Modi's men. The former bunch state that it was Trump offering trading access to India and Pakistan to the US if the two immediately stop their dhishoom-dhishoom that did the trick of, well, stopping the dhishoom-dhishoom. The latter lot - with S Jaishankar in the forefront - have denied this claim, stating that Pakistan called, wanting to stop the aforementioned dhishoom-dhishoom, and India replied, 'Ok, then.' Interestingly, none of the Indian rejections of Don-Don's claims was accompanied by GoI's signature scoff.

Trump has stated that the 2020 US presidential election was stolen due to widespread voter fraud. No credible evidence has, till date, supported his assertion. He claimed that his border wall was fully completed. In reality, only portions were constructed. Trump has repeatedly dismissed climate change as a hoax.... And the evidence list goes on, pointing to what some psychologists would call 'mythomania'. Mythomaniacs exaggerate events, fabricate stories or present completely false incidents as true. Modi, being a gentleman and unused to mythomaniacs, has not called out the person who calls him (and everyone else) his 'good friend'. Let's see what lies ahead.

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