MOSCOW, Dec 27 (Reuters) - Russia and India have made tangible progress in talks on plans to jointly produce military equipment, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday, after talks with his Indian counterpart Subrahmanyam Jaishankar in Moscow.
I’m always surprised to read the news and see India preferring the Russian partnership over that of the West.
It’s Modi. Many consider him to be essentially the Indian version of Trump, with all that implies. Including the suspicious Russia ties.
Fascists get on better with other fascists.
I don’t think it’s prefer one over the other. For India world is not binary. There is a reason it’s called third world country, Russian partnership doesn’t meant distance from West and western partnership doesn’t mean distance from Russia. India doesn’t have the luxury to pick sides. It has to keep engaging all global partners.
It is true, that India wants to be somewhat in the middle. They want to always get the best deal from either side, and develop their own defense industry.
But I disagree that not intensifying relations with Russia is a matter of luxury. Modi is simply a cunt.
My hope is that they squeezed the Russians. Their defense sector is in a sorry state right now. So they probably don’t have much bargaining power.