Former US national security adviser John Bolton’s tell-all book has some scant references to India and the mentions are not in a positive light. "On the post-Balakot military crises between India and Pakistan, the US establishment did not think it would go too far. No one else cared at the time, but the point was clear to me: this was what happened when people didn’t take nuclear proliferation from the likes of Iran and North Korea seriously," Bolton has written in the book—The Room Where it Happened.
"The rivalry should not be ignored as it could snowball into unmanageable proportions," Bolton had noted in his book of the rivalry between India and Pakistan.
According to Bolton, Trump flatly rejected India’s complaint that it would be disadvantaged if it stopped buying oil from Iran. "Not only will India have to find new suppliers but the price will be higher. Trump did not seem to care that it would be a grave discomfort to India to buy fuel at higher prices from other sources. 'It is incomprehensible,' Trump had said on officials stating that 'India is so important' or 'Japan is so important.'"
The tell-all memoir officially comes out on Tuesday after a security review and a legal challenge from the Justice Department against its release, an AP report reads. Justice Department challenged the release of the book on grounds that it contains classified material that should not be ousted.
Printed editions of the book have started coming up online, pirated PDFs of the book, that is a scathing takedown of the book is available online too.
