India has really surprised me. China and Russia are definitely up to no good. They both want Trump to suffer political defeat in any way possible and that may include a war. War is not popular with populists.
India has been ripping off the USA for years.
Np, India is waring on us by sending there hordes here.
China and Russia have at one time or another had a relationship that benefited both of them. It's a relationship of convenience. Who do you think we were fighting proxy wars against in Korea and Vietnam?
It should not be a surprise. Countries will always act in their best interest unless forced to do otherwise by a stronger force. The Indian foreign minister has often lashed back at journalists questioning him on why India buys cheap Russian oil (the answer is in the ‘cheap’). It would be folly for a country to stop buying a key national resource that they do not have domestically simply because of a war they have nothing to do with.
He also often retorts that European countries continued to purchase Russian oil after the war started as they had not yet gotten proper replacements, and only started pressuring India when their (the Europeans) stock was more adequate. It comes across as hypocrisy, and in all honesty, it is.
So, not really surprising.
It would be like India expecting the United Kingdom not to purchase basmati rice from Pakistan simply because India is not cordial with Pakistani, and UK purchases of Pakistani rice will mean more funds that Islamabad can purchase to potentially use against India.
The whole UK would laugh hard at India and find their request foolish.
Replace Pakistan with Russia, and simple rice with cheap oil, and you can see why India would rather face 50% tariffs from the US (especially when they can trade elsewhere) than sabotage themselves from an energy perspective.
Not surprising, and it is not meant to be anti-Trump (in the same way the UK laughing at the Pakistani-rice example would not be anti-Modi).