Is There a Deeper Ambivalence About the War in India?

There is a much deeper ambivalence about the war in Indian society as well. In India, yeah, it's not just government self-interest. There's also a deeper ideological aspect to this,. I would say twofold. One of it is a kind of outright sense of sympathy for the Russian narrative that the arrogant Western NATO has expanded right up to Russia's borders. It's anti-American in part, but it's anti-Western. That resonates with Indians who spent the Cold War effectively being lectured to by the Americans and they didn't like it. And we ignore that in our peril. A few weeks ago, the Indian Foreign Minister, Jeh Shanko,

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