Posted on 04/07/2023 3:42:44 AM PDT by Cronos
...the difference in how Moscow views what it stands to gain from the two countries could ultimately influence what it might do if put in a position where it needed to choose between them.
..is not a theoretical concept, considering the existing tensions between China and India. Over the last decade China-India relations have become more competitive and deadly. Tensions could deteriorate further over border disputes.
... China’s ties with Russia displayed a bipolar character. went from being “brothers” in the 1950s to enemies just a decade later. Conversely, India’s relations with the Soviet Union moved in the opposite direction. Moscow was initially wary of New Delhi, but the two drew close together by the 1970s, in part because of America’s support of Pakistan
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Concerns about China also drove India’s approach to Russia. During the latter half of the Cold War, Indian strategists came to see the Soviet Union as a key ally against China. After all, Beijing and Moscow were at each other’s throats. So, if war broke out between China and India along their disputed 2,167-mile border, India could reasonably expect help from the Soviet Union. At the very least, the Soviet Union could mobilize its forces on its border with China to pin down Chinese divisions near the Soviet Far East and thus reduce the number of troops Beijing could bring to bear against India. And, since tensions between China and India never fully dissipated, continuing New Delhi’s friendly relations with Moscow seemed like a prudent choice.
....India has sought to deal with such a possibility through warmer relations with Australia, Japan, and the US, New Delhi’s embrace of the West has been very slow. But given how close the Russian-Ukrainian War has brought China and Russia, New Delhi might want to pick up the pace.
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To counteract China, that is going to push India further into the western camp - and fast
And how often have the policy prognosticators been correct in determining outcomes absent a US intervention.
Nope, it’s fiction to think that India will get into bed with China when China occupies Indian territory and claims even more Indian territory
If Hitler could make a deal with Stalin, anything is possible.
Hitler and Stalin looked to carve up the land between them.
India and China have no land between them.
Hitler and Stalin didn’t hold or claim the territory of the other.
China holds and claims Indian land
Hitler and Stalin did in fact carve up Poland
Hitler was duplicitious and wanted it all and Russia as well. He lost it all
“You guys write great fiction. The opposite has occured in real life. India has moved solidly to the BRICS camp in the past year.”
Well stated. You can also state that we the Neocons gave India permission to try to settle their differences with China, and thus any stories to that effect are FAKE NEWS, as we see being claimed here.
“in part because of America’s support of Pakistan”
That has been one of the consistently dumbest aspects of U.S. foreign policy since Nixon. It has NEVER gained us a real friend in Pakistan nor incemtivised Pakistan against cooperation with the CCP. it was Pakistan via China that taught North Korea how to develope its nukes. Pakistan has pretended to be “on our side” for one reason and one reason only - U.S. military aid and U.S. military sales.
One thing India does have is people. It would make good sense for the Russians to hire 10,000 Indian vets as mercenaries and send them to fight in the Ukraine.
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