Germany Gets Slammed as Berlin Fails to Fulfil LNG Contract with India | Europe Energy Crisis

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Not at all, Indian military equipment was predominantly Soviet origin in the 1980's and India is still reliant on Russian spares but to a lesser degree today. As for China's invasion of Vietnam in 1979, Soviet Union was firmly in Vietnam's corner and the PLA's most effective combat units were positioned facing Russia to deter a Soviet attack. Today, China doesn't have to worry about a crippled Russia to the north a Russia's whose very survival depends on Chinese largesse.


good luck with that..

People really do not understand Russia China diplomacy, alignments, and strategies. Not even Russians and Chinese but Russians are more understanding than Chinese here. Chinese just regard Russia as an ally. Russians know they are an imperialist power no different to other European nations of the past in fact Russia's imperialism of today apes that of European powers of the past. Europe has long moved on. US has taken up that mantle but perform its imperialism (read dominance and ability to exert influence) through much more "modern" means. Russia is still stuck in old thinking partially due to not having those sorts of resources.

China and Russia remain strategic enemies. Long term enemies for sure and perhaps even medium term enemies. If Russia isn't looking east, it's looking west, if it isn't looking west it's looking east. Its influence stretches into Mongolia and both China and Russia are in their heart weary of each other's power balance.

As for the war in the 1970s, China's victory was in preventing Vietnam from topplying and taking Cambodia. It successfully prevented Vietnam's war against Pol Pot (not going to argue morality because this was a shame in my opinion to prevent Vietnam from stopping Pol Pot). Failure and loss? Failure in not being able to stop Vietnam from entering Cambodia and Pol Pot's rule eventually being overthrown. Success in assisting Pol Pot against Vietnam and preventing his rule from being overthrown and delaying that, capturing Vietnamese land and cities and Hanoi.

In terms of not taking over Vietnam but just like current war in Europe, it was China managing to invade into Vietnam and taking land. If we call its ceasefire as a loss then sure lol. Indians love to call it an absolute loss without caring to look at the strategic goal being met and won and that China was in Vietnam, it was not Vietnam fighting in China. Once strategic goals were met, of course China pulled out of Vietnam unless the expectation from Indians observing was defining victory only as China annexing land of Vietnam. Well that wasn't ever a stated objective.

 

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This is a small amount of LNG compared to what India imports. The Germans were just middlemen selling Gazprom LNG. Jaishanker was in Moscow yesterday and I am sure Lavarov has already smoothed this over.
Indian indignation is superficial as every Tom Dick and Harry knows Germany is in dire straights regarding its energy needs.
German company has rightly paid the fine for non delivery and that's the end of that. The German company cannot provide LNG it does not have.
India is a proto superpower it allies with NOBODY and continues to serve only Indian interests. Others may join India in specific ventures BUT THERE WILL BE NO ALLIANCE with any other country.