Friends with Limits: The Future of Russo-Indian Defense Ties
Earlier this year, a Russian Su-57 fighter jet roared across Indian skies, capturing attention at the Aero India exhibition. The Kremlin’s aspirations for the showcase were transparent: Moscow offered to sell its fifth-generation fighter jet to New Delhi the next day. This is nothing new. Defense ties between the two countries go back decades. For the Biden administration, those ties were both an irritant and a puzzle: an irritant because India’s purchases undercut U.S. sanctions after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and a puzzle because even as Moscow drew into a “no limits” friendship with Beijing and New Delhi took an obvious Westward-tilt, Russia never abandoned India to The post Friends with Limits: The Future of Russo-Indian Defense Ties appeared first on War on the Rocks.
Earlier this year, a Russian Su-57 fighter jet roared across Indian skies, capturing attention at the Aero India exhibition. The Kremlin’s aspirations for the showcase were transparent: Moscow offered to sell its fifth-generation fighter jet to New Delhi the next day. This is nothing new. Defense ties between the two countries go back decades. For the Biden administration, those ties were both an irritant and a puzzle: an irritant because India’s purchases undercut U.S. sanctions after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and a puzzle because even as Moscow drew into a “no limits” friendship with Beijing and New Delhi took an obvious Westward-tilt, Russia never abandoned India to
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