'Our goal is to become India's best friend', says US Vice-President Biden as talks begin

[vsdoc]

With friends like Russia, who needs enemies? At least the Americans are predictable (in pursuing $$$) and crucially DEPENDABLE. Russia on the other hand will continue to fleece India (Talwars, Vikramditya, MRTA, FGFA etc for example) and claim India is their closest partner whilst selling hardware to India's rivals (China) and enemies (Pakistan).


Screw these greedy and increasingly irrelevant Russians.

The writing has been on the wall for some time now with respect to our forces.

Pakistan is the least of our bothers.

China and Russia double teaming is.

 

[P.K.]

O.k. Uncle Sam, But we must tell you in advance that

Indian already have Pakistanis as their best friends

 

[Chanakya's_Chant]

Kinda reminds me of Henry Kissinger's famous quote: 'To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal.'

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[PARIKRAMA]

Pakistan Is The “Zipper” Of Pan-Eurasian Integration | Russian Institute for Strategic Studies
Pakistan Is The “Zipper” Of Pan-Eurasian Integration

Quoting from this article
The State Of Play:

• South Asia’s geopolitics were transformed by the end of the Cold War and the subsequent nuclear bipolarity that arose between India and Pakistan.
• The conclusion of the global ideological stand-off lessened the intensity of the Russian-Indian Strategic Partnership and the US’ dealings with Pakistan, as South Asia was no longer seen as a priority area of foreign policy focus by either superpower after that time.
• As a result, India began to drift westward at the same time that Pakistan was moving eastward, with New Delhi looking towards Washington while Islamabad embraced Beijing.
• This doesn’t mean that either of them completely turned their backs on their historical partners (Russia and the US, respectively), but that the changing global context forced them to adapt to a new reality of relations that continued the furtherance of their national self-interests.
• By 2015, this process had progressed to the point that Pakistan is a stalwart Chinese ally and India is a civilizational pole balancing between the US and Russia.
• Prime Minister Modi has been practicing multipolarity to its theoretical fullest, strengthening his country’s military—technicalpartnership with Russia at the same time as it economically and strategically pivots towards supporting American objectives vis-à-vis the containment of China.
• From India’s perspective, Pakistan is a proxy of China and undermines its western border security, while China and Pakistan see India as an American partner managing both of them on Washington’s Lead From Behind behalf.

The Kremlin’s Calculations:

• In terms of how this all relates to Russia, Moscow has strong ties with Beijing and New Delhi, thus bestowing it with the potential to intermediate between the two and ensure that bilateral tension doesn’t spill over into something worse.
• What Russia doesn’t have is the ability to do the same between India and Pakistan, thus inviting a non-Eurasian super polity (the US) into the mix and giving it plenty of opportunity to divide and conquer according to the present geopolitical circumstances.
• The thinking goes that if Russia were to compensate for its diplomatic ‘blind spot’ with Pakistan and reinvigorate the bilateral relationship with Islamabad, then it could mirror the role that it plays between India and China in also helping to balance the tension between India and Pakistan.

Russian Moves:

• The first step that really got observers talking was Russia’s decision in June 2014 to begin discussions with Pakistan about the sale of attack helicopters to assist with drug-combating efforts.
• Being described as a “paradigm shift”, some thought that it was motivated by Russia’s concerns that Afghanistan’s destabilization will rapidly move cross-border after the NATO drawdown at the end of that year, but as was described previously, it can also be strongly inferred that another strategic motivation was to eventually balance India and Pakistan and make the multipolar world even more cohesive as a result.
• It’s not just military relations that are deepening between the two, as Russia plans to put its technical expertise to work in building a portion of the Iran-Pakistan-China gas pipeline in the near future.

Diplomatic Clumsiness:

• One of the major strategic risks to pan-Eurasian integration inherent to Russia and Pakistan’s budding relationship is that Moscow risks pushing New Delhi closer into the hands of Washington.
• This could realistically occur through the unintentional creation of a security dilemma (provoked by the US and its information proxies) and an exaggerated Indian threat assessment of Russia’s activities.
• If the Indian political establishment feels that Russia is ‘sliding away’ towards the China-Pakistan ‘axis’ (as it views it), then it’ll conversely speed up its strategic dealings with the US.
• This would consequently negate one of the main reasons behind the Russian-Pakistan strategic partnership, which as stated, is to place Moscow in a position to intermediate between New Delhi and Islamabad and keep regional relations stable enough so as to jump start the envisioned multilateral economic partnership.
• If Russia somehow bungles the entire thing (or what would be more likely, the US sabotages it through the mechanisms that will be described soon), then it would be worse off than if it hadn’t even begun what in hindsight would then look like its failed Pakistani gambit.
• This is because it would have lost a major strategic partner in India while only gaining a lesser one through Pakistan, which it must be said will never see its relations with Russia as being on an equal level as those that it has with China.
• Therefore, the most important thing that Russia must do throughout this entire process is take heed in proceeding delicately and with consideration to how influential decision makers in the Indian establishment are viewing its evolving partnership with Pakistan.
• Additionally, since it’s expected that the US will try to split Russia and India through Pakistan in a similar way as it did with Russia and the EU through Ukraine (although for different reasons and through incomparable contexts), Moscow must be aware of Washington’s information warfare against it on this front and needs to remain in steady contact with its closest counterparts in New Delhi so as to dispel any false inferences when they arise and reassure its partners of the lasting integrity of the fraternal Russian-Indian relationship.

American Influence:

• Following off of the inferences hinted at above, it’s absolutely expected that the US will continue to insert itself between Russia and India with the intent of dividing the two once and for all.
• There are two specific ways in which it can do this other than the generalized information war that should be taken as a given. The first thing that most readers may not be aware of is just how significant of an inroad the US has made in supplying the Indian defense industry, having now become its largest arms supplier since 2014 and supplying 12% of the country’s total stock.
• This is still a far throw away from Russia’s whopping 70% of market dominance, but as India’s aging Soviet-era weaponry is replaced with newer American and Israeli munitions (Tel Aviv’s largest arms customer is India), the emerging trend is obviously not to Russia’s favor, and could have potentially played a part in influencing its decision to resume arms exports to Pakistan (which initiated the growing strategic partnership in the first place).
• The saliency in this underreported military development is that the US is making itself more integral to India’s national security, and this coincides with New Delhi’s strategic overlap with the US in containing China.
• The longer this progresses, the further the US will embed itself into India’s deep state apparatus, with all of the misfortunate foreign policy consequences for the multipolar world.

• The second and potentially most direct means by which the US can influence India away from Russia is through the personal rapport shared between Modi and Obama.
• The two leaders have publicly expressed their mutual chemistry for one another, with Obama even writing a short fluff piece about Modi for Time Magazine last spring. Their close interpersonal relations first made public headlines after Modi’s visit to Washington last fall, where the two strolled along the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial and appeared quite chummy with one another.
• When Obama visited India to attend its Republic Day parade in January, the media was in such a state of ecstasy that they even termed the political couple “Mobama”.
• Although the entire friendship could be an exaggerated charade for political purposes, there’s nothing tangible to indicate that this is the case, since by all measures, the two leaders really do appear to be honest friends and get along quite well with one another.
• By itself, this doesn’t pose any worries for Russia, but the problem predictably arises when Obama leverages his friendship with Modi in order to enact certain policy shifts from India, such as his encouragement of the Prime Minister’s Act East policy solely because of the unstated reason that can aggravate relations with China.
• When Obama finally attempts to resort to personal diplomacy with Modi in order to encourage him to ‘adjust’ India’s relations with Russia in a comparable manner, that’s precisely the moment when Russian interests are most endangered by the US ‘winning over’ India into viewing the Russian-Pakistan strategic partnership as a threat.
• The only suitable deterrent to this scenario is for Putin to continually reinforce his relationship with Modi so that the latter is insusceptible to being tricked by Obama into doubting the Russian President’s intentions.

This is a thinktank publication from Russian Institute of Strategic Studies which advises president Putin.

credit goes to GuruD who pasted the link in another blog, This think tank defines clearly whats happening in reality and why its not so surprising with the new shift into deeper friendship for both India and Pakistan

 

[Sky lord]

With friends like Russia, who needs enemies? At least the Americans are predictable (in pursuing $$$) and crucially DEPENDABLE. Russia on the other hand will continue to fleece India (Talwars, Vikramditya, MRTA, FGFA etc for example) and claim India is their closest partner whilst selling hardware to India's rivals (China) and enemies (Pakistan).


Screw these greedy and increasingly irrelevant Russians.

Didn't India write off a lot of debt when the USSR collapsed. India couldn't really afford it but was standing by our friend.

 

[BountyHunter]

I think India needs to balance its friendship with USA and Russia.

 

[prima99]

ls India trying to get into an India-Israel-USA-Japan-Aus-UK-France-Germany-Nato allies bloc?
if it happens then we can surely see China-Russia-Pak-Nepal-Afganistan-Indonesia-allies bloc..

well we're happy to recieve them as allies honestly. we've been too independent and too friendly for every nations that we don't even know whos the enemies and the allies.

shoulda count Iran, Bangladesh, North Korea (because of China and Indonesia) and some african countries in for the China-Russia-Pak-Nepal-Afganistan-Indonesia-allies bloc though.

 

[JanjaWeed]

Thank you...but we will keep changing the post though...

 

[Imran Khan]

their goal is US intreast rest is just Bull shitting

 

[xyxmt]

We don't need any best friend.

surprise, you dont have any...anymore
right now Modi sarkar is going after Pakistan's ex best friends lol

 

[Viper0011.]

no thanks we already have our best friend RUSSIA.

"no thanks we already HAD our best friend RUSSIA".....sentence corrected as it was missing a past tense verb (irregular).

 

[kasper95]

"no thanks we already HAD our best friend RUSSIA".....sentence corrected as it was missing a past tense verb (irregular).

please correct this as well then .

I already have a daughter and son .

 

[Viper0011.]

please correct this as well then. I already have a daughter and son .

I don't get into people's family business.....sorry!

 

[kasper95]

I don't get into people's family business.....sorry!

I just wanted to know why using already have is wrong. anyway if you don't want its alright.

 

[shree835]

surprise, you dont have any...anymore
right now Modi sarkar is going after Pakistan's ex best friends lol

Right now Modi sarkar is going only after India's intrest....Please make a note America was never pakistan's friend...they are only using you....Like China is using you as pakistan as CHINA BAZZAR for everything.... US and others are giving you money and china is taking that money from you....So end of the day you are left with China Maal.