Since the war in Ukraine, western countries led by the United States have severely sanctioned Russia, and Ah Mao Ah Shu has not been spared. The United States, based on its own interests, demands that other countries take sides and sanction Russia. The mainland has always advocated solving the problem through diplomatic channels, but India's pro-Russian performance has surprised many people and said that they cannot understand the third brother.
The United States dominated the "international public opinion" of the war, because several major social platforms are controlled by the United States, and other major powers have no share. So on these platforms, Russia became the heinous Nazi fascists. Unexpectedly, the Indians stood on a pro-Russian position and fought back against those unsubstantiated obscenities, and with the efforts of countless Indian netizens, "India supports Russia" has become a hot search, tearing open the "public opinion war" network of the United States encircling and suppressing Russia.
Many people wonder, isn't India the iron brother of the United States? How this time suddenly "conscience discovered". For example, in the so-called Four Asia-Pacific countries, India and the United States wear a pair of pants to create trouble for the mainland. India does this naturally out of its own self-interest. In the same way, India supports Russia out of its own interests. India is not a small country with an area of 2.98 million square kilometers and a population of nearly 1.4 billion. India is located at the northern end of the Indian Ocean, west of the Europe-Suez Canal - Persian Gulf, east of Southeast Asia - East Asia, southwest of Africa, southeast of Australia, the strategic position is prominent.
Unlike Britain, Australia, South Korea and Japan, which are controlled by the United States, India has autonomy over its own interests. India has enough strength not to participate in the US side, and the United States says that it wants to sanction India, but it does not dare to push India into a hurry.
Why are India and Russia on such good terms? There are historical reasons for this.
After the Iron Curtain of the Cold War opened, what the United States wanted to do most was to encircle the Soviet Union globally. The United States originally wanted to use East Asia as a big wall to encircle the Soviet Union, but the mainland did not blindly follow, and the United States could only retreat to the second place and support Japan and South Korea. In the direction of the Indian Ocean, the biggest wall that the United States could use to encircle the Soviet Union was India. The Soviet Union was not stupid, and naturally knew that India was the key to their ability to break through the encirclement of the United States, and looked at India differently.
The mainland had received massive Soviet assistance for industrialization, but was suspended in 1957 due to problems in relations between the two countries. In fact, the Soviet Union also helped India to industrialize until the 1980s. When conflicts broke out between India and the mainland in the 1960s, the Soviet Union sided with India, responding almost everything to India's needs and giving weapons and resources. India regarded the Soviet Union as a "superpower" and provoked the mainland, only to be beaten to the point of blue nose and swollen face.
Photo - Aerial photo of New Delhi
Before the collapse of the Soviet Union, India was more affinity for the Soviet Union, and its relations with the United States were not stable, with ups and downs. US Secretary of State Dulles advocated the Cold War, while India supported peaceful and neutral non-alignment, so angry that the United States scolded India for immorality. Then the United States went to support India's sworn enemy, Pakistan. You read that right, in the early days, Pakistan and the United States were closer, and relations with the mainland were not so ironclad.
Also in 1962, when India provoked the mainland, the United States saw "business opportunities" and turned to support India, without giving less weapons, and India began to call the United States brothers and brothers. But this enthusiasm did not last long, and after the outbreak of the Second India-Pakistani War in 1965, the United States stopped aiding the two countries, and India was very unhappy. In 1971, India, with the support of the Soviet Union, separated West East Kistan (present-day Bangladesh) from Pakistan, which was strongly dissatisfied with the United States, and relations between the two countries began to be cold. In the decades that followed, the United States and India were like this, according to their own interests, one would be brothers, and the other would turn their faces and deny people. In 1980, the Soviet Union danced a sword in Afghanistan, intended to exit the Indian Ocean. Of course, the United States cannot accept it, so it must support India. In 1982, the United States provided nuclear fuel to India, which made India very satisfied.
After the end of the Cold War, Russia's power was greatly reduced, and the mainland economy continued to rise, which made the United States see the importance of co-opting India. Both Clinton and George W. Bush have highlighted India's importance in U.S. Asia-Pacific policy.
India still has that attitude: run at both ends, don't choose sides. In the late Soviet period, in the six years after 1980, India received $4 billion in Soviet aid and was scheduled to give India 160 MiG-29 fighter jets in 1990. As for the other weapons, India has eaten well.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia was not as powerful as the Soviet Union, but after all, there was still the residual power of a superpower. Russia, in particular, has a strong military industry and very rich resources, which are urgently needed by India, which has failed to industrialize.
India does not want Russia to be crushed by the United States, otherwise the United States will eat India, sell weapons at high prices, and India will buy them with tears. With Russia, India can lower prices here in the United States. Russia's economy was very difficult in the early 90s, and India did not say a word, directly dumped a large ticket, and moved Russia badly. Subsequently, India actually used rubles to pay off its debts, but after the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 90s, the ruble had long since depreciated to a mess, and its purchasing power could not be compared with that of the 70s and 80s. For example, if you lent your neighbor 100 yuan in the early 1980s, and in 2022, the neighbor will give you back 200 yuan in a very atmospheric way. Purchasing power is one pacific off.
In the middle is the Indian aircraft carrier, in the near distance is the American aircraft carrier, and in the distance is the Japanese frigate Izumo
However, Russia is in a deep quagmire and urgently needs to sell weapons and resources to India, which is an emerging economy. For example, the famous Indian aircraft carrier was almost sent for free. But after India bought it, it spent $2.9 billion to refit it, and $5 billion to buy Russia's MiG-29 carrier-based aircraft. In other words, Russia's previous losses have almost been returned to India.
Picture - Indian aircraft carrier
While Russia and India calculate each other, they share a common interest and do not want the United States to dominate the world. So it is not surprising that India supports Russia this time.