This might ultimately lead to Russia no longer playing second fiddle to India in South Asia

Russia and China want to avoid a split over India in the New Cold War

The improvement of relations with Pakistan allows Moscow to perfect its sensitive “balancing” act in Eurasia

It’s unlikely that the Biden Administration would take any meaningful action to sanction or otherwise pressure India

India is trading its secular reputation for a Hindu nationalist one

The BJP fears the influence farmers hold over society, hence their interest in politically neutralising them

Establishing control over the Indian Ocean would enable the US to more effectively “contain” China

Russia might be sending the signal to China that it wants to “balance” Beijing in the South China Sea

Russian peacekeepers will now be deployed along the line of contact in Nagorno-Karabakh and the Lachin Corridor

New Delhi is close military partners with Paris after the latter recently became a major arms supplier