Strained US-India relations under pressure over Russia

[former9thward]

The Biden administration is walking a tightrope in its relationship with India over New Delhi’s refusal to join the U.S. in its campaign to isolate Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Administration officials this week said they have for months been in a “pitched battle” to convince India, the world’s largest democracy, to join the U.S., EU and other democratic nations in pushing back against Putin’s authoritarian ambitions. Those efforts have only stepped up since Putin launched an invasion of Ukraine last week.

While the U.S. and India have deepened relations over the past nearly two decades, New Delhi has relied for generations on Moscow’s delivery of military assistance and views Russia as its key ally against China’s attempts at further dominating the region.

https://thehill.com/policy/international/596948-strained-us-india-relations-under-pressure-over-russia

[Chainfire]

1. India is literally between a rock and a hard place.

I can see both sides of their story. However, if Russia has become strongly connected to China, where will that leave India?

[turbinetree]

2. If anyone wants to know how Narendra Damodardas Modi came to power one can read the

book by Barbara F. Walter, How Civil War Start and she pretty much explains who this "guy" is and he is an extremist from the reading and he has put extremists into key positions under his predatory polices....he has attacked three core components of India's electoral democracy, free and fair elections, freedom of speech and freedom of association he has even "blacklisted journalists" which he claims publish "fake news'....and he is all in on ethnic factionalism....

[JI7]

4. Modi is trash but this isn't about him. All mainstream parties have the same position

And it goes back to US and the west funding Pakistan during the cold war. This was done to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan but terror attacks directed at India also. And this happened again after 9-11.

Plus China is close to Pakistan. Most of ndia's neighbors are almost like Chinese colonies .

What the US and others need to do is make the case to India that this is about stopping Putin and not about being anti Russia. Bring up how many Russians are also protesting what Putin is doing.

[crickets]

3. India's in a bit of a tough spot.

Of course, Ted Cruz tries to find a way to make it all Biden's fault. What a jackass. 🙄

[BumRushDaShow]

5. Not counting the issues of their border with China

India has had some long-running dispute about the Kashmir region with Pakistan -



All the post-WW1 and WW2 carve-outs continue to haunt.

[Hekate]

6. Oh dear

[Jspur]

7. I'm the son of two indian immgirants so I have good idea of why

this is happening. My father told me back in the day during the cold war America decided to be an ally of Pakistan. Pakistan is India's number 1 sworn enemy. This rubbed India the wrong way and they became an ally of Russia. Russia throughout the cold war and now has always had India's back while that hasn't been the case with the US. This is why it's very hard for India to turn against Russia.