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eigenrobot
@eigenrobot
while i understand indias sentiment for russia i do think as others have pointed out it rather undermines the story of india representing "anticolonialism" as the issue at hand is literally russia attempting to retain a colony by force. seems p hard to twist out of that bind
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eigenrobot
@eigenrobot
i guess the obvious counter is "actually this is russia resisting western colonization" which ok fine i understand that position but also its trying to resist colonization by . . . colonizing someone else so idk man maybe these are shaky grounds your standing on
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eigenrobot
@eigenrobot
i appreciate this anyway im mostly bullish on india and i wish the US would figure out how to take them seriously and make better relations happen, this is only tangential to russia
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Karol Karpinski 🇺🇦
@karolkarpinski
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I don't think that it's something India very actively purports to represent right now, though. I just had a quick google of the website of the MEA and I found just a handful of references to "anti-colonialism", mostly historical. "National interest" is what's in now.
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eigenrobot
@eigenrobot
perhaps we could pill them on US armaments like i kind of expect russia's not gonna be making or repairing much of anything in the near future to say nothing of recent practical demonstrations of russian armaments in the field major sales opportunity
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Didymus
@geospagetti
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The position of India the State is based on “our entire military is reliant upon Russian arms sales and continuing maintenance support from Russian contractors and we have belligerent powers on two borders”.
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