From WSJopinion: New Delhi may be frustratingly tolerant of Putin, but it isn’t likely to help him substantively, writes dhume
Some could argue that even if New Delhi doesn’t have economic incentives to buy up Russian oil, it could still offer Moscow a lifeline as the largest customer for another key Russian export: weapons. A little over a quarter of Russia’s arms exports from 2017 through 2021 went to India.
Mr. Tellis also notes that Russia has had more success than the U.S. at co-producing and co-developing weapons with India, including the mid-range cruise missile BrahMos, named for the Brahmaputra and Moskva rivers. Russia’s arms manufacturers are tightly linked to the government. Unlike American firms, they don’t need to worry about justifying co-development decisions on commercial terms.
Another area of Indian cooperation with Russia is its membership in non-Western groupings such as Brics , RIC and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. But these are really only talk shops with little policy coherence or influence. Besides, India’s involvement is in large part meant to ensure that Russia does not draw too close to China, which may be fruitless at this point. None of these groupings will materially influence the outcome of the war in Ukraine.
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