At a time when the United States and Spain and many countries in the world collectively launched large-scale sanctions against Russia, the voices of "supporting Russia" and "supporting Putin" suddenly came out. According to the Global Network reported on March 15, under the condition that the Western social media platform represented by Twitter deleted and blocked the Russian government, media and other associated accounts, some Indian netizens worked together to brush the labels of "I stand Putin" and "I stand In Russia" to the forefront of the multinational Twitter hot search list.
In that case, "Why should India stand up for Russia?" "How did India break through the Social Media 'Hegemony' controlled by the West and bring the voice of Supporting Russia to the hinterland of Western public opinion?" Two issues have become the focus of attention from the outside world.
For the first question, Tang Jingtai, a professor and scholar in the Department of Communication at the School of Journalism of Fudan University, analyzed that first of all, the connection between India and Russia has always been relatively close, during the Cold War, India has many politicians close to the Soviet Union, until today, Russia has always been an importer of a large number of weapons and equipment in India; secondly, the "big country complex" of Modi's supporters cannot be underestimated, they believe that India as a "great power" in the South Asian subcontinent, and one of the signs of "great power" is to get rid of Western control. It has an independent foreign policy and position; finally, it is the repeated trampling of India's dignity by the United States - India has always regarded Nepal as its "territory", but the Nepalese parliament has previously approved the "Millennium Challenge Plan Agreement" between Nepal and the United States, which means that the United States has invaded nepal without India's "consent", and it also means that the United States is openly provoking India. In addition, in the context of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, Indian students were brutally treated by Ukrainian border guards in the process of fleeing Ukraine, in retaliation for India's neutral attitude in the Russian-Ukrainian incident, which also seriously damaged the self-esteem of the Indian people.
For the second question, the scholar explained that first of all, because of the excellent English language use ability of Indian netizens, which helps them to successfully penetrate into Western media platforms without being discovered by British and American users; secondly, because Indian IP can be treated friendly by Western social media under the protection of Indian managers of American technology companies; and finally because Indian netizens are familiar with the rules of Twitter hotspot manufacturing.
Catalyzed by these two major reasons, the Indian people have opened a network war of "pro-Russian, anti-American and anti-Western" through the way of "network expedition". However, at the time when India's "network supports the Russian army" is on a huge expedition, Elon Musk, the founder of the US Space Exploration Technology Company, is alone and shouts to single out Putin.
The Global Network quoted Russian media sources on the 15th as saying that Musk tweeted in English, Russian and Ukrainian: "I want to single out Putin." The stakes are Ukraine. At the end of the tweet, he also @voted on the kremlin's official Twitter account and asked in Russian: "Do you agree to this duel?" In this regard, Kadyrov, the leader of the Russian Republic of Chechnya, responded: Musk, I really do not recommend you to engage in this duel, you should be clear that you and Putin's "heavyweight" is not on the same level. In addition, Rogozin, general manager of the Russian State Aerospace Corporation, directly quoted a fairy tale poem by the famous Russian writer Pushkin in reply: You are a little ghost, still very young. Fighting with me is still very tender, it will only be a waste of time.