India's Relationship With Russia

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India finds the Western condemnation of its refusal to kind of wade in as it sees it on the Ukraine-Russia war perplexing. India's taking a lot of advantage from the Russia-Ukraine war because it's greedily buying up cut price Russian resources that are no longer going to the West. So I expect Russia to turn more towards Asia. Far from finding anything to apologize for in its continuing close relationship with Russia, India appears to be taking an unashamed advantage of that relationship right now.

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