India-Russia pact allows troops and warships on each other's soil

Its a new Russian tactic for Ukraine, everything else has failed, at least they wont sink.

Yeah, they're planning to sail an aircraft carrier into the Himalayas. Mountain navy, baby.

Typical Russian navy L.

Maybe out of range from Ukrainian attack?

I mean, it's not like Russian ships do well on water either.

Zubr-class LCAC

Geopolitics doesn't work like class cliques

Bro thinks geopolitics is a high school love triangle

You're also mistaken to think that China and Russia are like best buds, it's only circumstantial. China and Russia have bad blood and is part of what China calls the century of humiliation, from the start of the opium wars in the 1800s, to the end of WW2 in the mid 1900s. Back then, western powers including Russia, forced unequal treaties onto China, with the west also doing many horrible and unfair things to China. The century also includes the Japanese invasion of China and the horrendous warcrimes thay committed then. Russia also invaded Manchuria, and massacred the local qing inhabitants during their Eurasian expansion. Judging from how the century of humiliation is still a term used and remembered by the Chinese, it's not hard to imagine the grudge they still hold, and how they actually feel about this situationship.

What you also don't realize is that Russia and China are also in a subtle competition with each other despite being the best of allies on the surface. Russia has a ton of natural resources that China needs, and Russia needs to ensure that China doesn't become their sole buyer of natural resources (relegating them to the status of a resource colony). Basically, Russia cannot let itself become too dependent on China as its sole customer either. Likewise, China is further developing other sources of resources in various other countries, such as in Africa (buying/building ports, mines etc). Also, its funny because Russia needs India to act as a counterweight to China, and China uses Pakistan as a counterweight to India. If India and China somehow magically became united into one country (will never happen of course), Russia would be a threatened. Ironically I believe India is funding/using the new Taliban govt of Afghanistan as a counterweight to Pakistan. Geopolitics is like 5D chess

India's friendship with Russia, and Russia's with China, are just mutually beneficial agreements. In both cases, both have stuff the other needs. Be it raw materials, military tech, or money. That doesn't mean the other would, e.g. come to help if someone's under attack. (A *lot* of people seem to confuse BRICS, of which those countries are a part, to be a military or strategic alliance. It is not). India ans Turkey are perfect examples of opportunistic, "country-first" approach. Turkey being in NATO while also buying Russian military hardware a few years back exemplifies that well.

India is also funding almost all their solar panels from China. There's normalization efforts at the government level so you could say the governments are neutral now, but listnook opinion 100% isn't. Geopolitics is weird. The US was friends with India till the trade war, but a frenemy with Russia? The US is also allied with Pakistan which is an enemy of India.

‘Trumps USA is unfriendly with India’ Is this based on his current term? Because he was pretty friendly in his first term

Wow, if there was a war engine pulling the strings it would make complete sense.

What event are you referring to when you say the West attacked India?

US supporting Pakistan is bad. But Russia being Best friends with China while China directly funded Pakistan economic and military growth is a good thing?

I've been to INS Vikramaditya, and I've seen Russian sailors on-board. Ig Russia leases them for certain expertise.

I'm from India and i've never seen anyone claim the "west" attacked India

It's comments like these that make you realize how much of Listnook is Indian.

> and China have soldiers beating each other to death with clubs every other year. And China supporting Pakistani airforce in the last altercation ...

It’s because they’ve had a historically great relationship. Soviet Union was allied with India when western countries were unfriendly.

Indian - Russo relationship started way back from the days of the USSR. It is a mistake to examine it on the basis of just the recent decades

Game Theory 101: Your neighbors are a future threat. Their neighbors are your natural partners. China's neighbors - India and Russia - natural partners India's neighbors - Pakistan and China - natural partners Pakistan's neighbors - India and Iran - natural partners Iran's neighbors - Turkey and Pakistan - natural partners Turkey's neighbors - Armenia and Greece - natural partners Armenia's neighbors - Turkey and Azerbaijan - natural partners Azerbaijan's neighbors - Russia and Iran - natural partners That's fundamentally how relationships are formed at the state level.

how are you confused ? west has antagonized india since independence, russia/soviets supported and traded with india, india wouldnt have most of their millitary jets and navy ships without them, they supported india during bangladesh war while west supported pakistan who were killing bengalis in millions and they also regularly vote in favor of india in UNSC.

India can't lose Russia. Imagine China,Russia and Pakistan on one side

Thats the whole point. Having access to military ports in hard to reach places is good if you want to project power. Without bases or port access Russia would have big trouble projecting power in the Indian ocean. Same for India in the Arctic, Pacific and Europe. US has bases and allies all over the world for the excat same thing. For example Diego Garcia is about as far away from the US as you can get and its exactly why having access to it is so valuable for the US.

Highly regarded statement here.