India Gains Strong Backing From Russia & China Amid U.S. Pressure | NewsX

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This panel discussion with three Indian commentators at least one of whom is clearly highly placed and one discussant in Russia presents perspectives on the official Indian position welcoming Russian solidarity in the face of US secondary sanctions on the country imposed by Donald Trump over Indian purchases of Russian oil. Note the emphasis on the part of the Indian panelists on the long tradition of Soviet/Russian support for India in international venues as well as supposed cultural affinities.  However, I also call attention to the Indian support for Israel in the midst of the Gaza genocide which is explained by the senior Indian panelist.

I used the microphone to introduce a longer-range prediction that India and the US will patch up relations so that in the future India resumes its balancing act as ‘nonaligned’ between Russia and the USA. If Russia steps up its purchases of Indian fruits and vegetables as Vladimir Putin apparently pledged during his Sochi Q&A that will not go far to offset the economic losses from Trump’s sanctions.

Note, too, that the Indians are looking forward to Vladimir Putin’s state visit to India in December.  For  his own sake, I wish that the Russian President reviews carefully his security detail for that trip, because if the failing support among Kremlin elites for his conduct of the war translates into action, that trip to India would be the ideal place for his domestic opponents to solve their problem.

I have little doubt that the security issue explains Putin’s failure to visit Erdogan in Turkey earlier this year.

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Gilbert Doctorow's latest book, "War Diaries. The Russia-Ukraine War, 2022-2023" is a unique contribution to literature on the war thanks to the author's reports on the Russian home front written during his periodic visits to St Petersburg at a time when Russia no longer issued visas and nearly all Western journalists had left the country. Doctorow's two-volume "Memoirs of a Russianist" published in 2020 also constitutes a category of its own, consisting largely of diary entries rather than reminiscences written decades later.. Volume 2 focuses on the community of 50,000 expatriate managers working and living in Moscow during the 1990s, about which none of his peers has yet to write. Gilbert Doctorow is a professional Russia watcher and actor in Russian affairs going back to 1965. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College (1967), a past Fulbright scholar, and holder of a Ph.D. with honors in history from Columbia University (1975). After completing his studies, Mr. Doctorow pursued a business career focused on the USSR and Eastern Europe. For twenty-five years he worked for US and European multinationals in marketing and general management with regional responsibility. From 1998-2002, Doctorow served as the Chairman of the Russian Booker Literary Prize in Moscow. During the 2010-2011 academic year, he was a Visiting scholar of the Harriman Institute, Columbia University. Mr. Doctorow is a long-time resident of Brussels.

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