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

[BATTLE FIELD]

Best friend which is supplying military equipments to our competition. For decade's (China)

Best friends which blackmailed us by Forming defence cooperation agreements with are main nemesis.

You called this a friendship.Better to keep relation more professional with such friend than emotional one.

russia is giving us 5th gen fighter who else would do that.

russia gives us everytech they have.

u.s is no friend to any one.

 

[Skull and Bones]

russia is giving us 5th gen fighter who else would do that.

russia gives us everytech they have.

u.s is no friend to any one.

US is giving its 5th gen fighters to more than a dozen countries, Russia didn't had funds to undertake development of a 5th gen fighter on its own, so they partnered with us. Not because of brotherly love. They approached to China first, before India.

 

[mpk1988]

Nothing is as simple as being black and white. It makes sense for us to look at both Russia and the US as allies and partners.

 

[surya kiran]

Holy shit.....its time we started getting really scared now. Best friends normally drag you into jail when they are in jail just for togetherness sake.

 

[Aarush]

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests... This is a bitter truth. Freiendship changes but Interest are permanent.

 

[PARIKRAMA]

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..

Both blocs will try over the next 21 and 22nd century to increase their clout in economic, military and scope of influence for energy, markets and resources...

Interestingly, both blocs has 1 each most populous country. The US bloc has more money and tech advantage.. Yet China bloc has more US dollar bonds and enough to make US always dependent on China for their currency stability.

if this plays out the way these two blocs are made then increasing hostility will be clearly seen...
would be interesting to see where ME countries and oil rich arab nations tilt? so is african nations.. Oil rich i guess will do business as usual.. african nations needs lots of investment and thats where china has made strategic inroads in recent times...

The changing times may see changing philosophies...not one best friend but rather mix of friends which serves national interests and is win win for both sides.

 

[45'22']

Did anyone mention that there are no permanent friends but only permanent interests

 

[ganesh623]

People comparing US and russia needs to understand one thing.
Russia can only give you military equipments. I am not even getting into their recent snubs and pricing into recent orders.
While USA can give you military equipments as well as business back in your home. American companies can get involved in make in india campaign. And i am talking about non military stuff. Also america is IT superpower, which does have its share of jobs given to india. What will russia give in this field ? Russia is just a surviving economy. It cannot help india the way americans can.

 

[Ankit Kumar 001]

No one is a best friend in international relations untill they have some similar fascist ideology.

At best we can say Israel as a friend at the moment.

Better to be professional with all . And diplomatic too.

 

[Archie]

Indians want to live and work in USA

We can't say the same with Russia

 

[third eye]

We dont need ' best friends ".

We need associates whose concerns coincide with ours in the long term

Indians want to live and work in USA

We can't say the same with Russia

Language, economy..

 

[Srinivas]

There must be full cooperation of USA for India's bid to UNSC permanent seat with Veto power, MTCR membership, and other elite clubs.

which are created to deny India's nuclear status.

 

[PARIKRAMA]

The moment when I saw Nepal mentioned in a bloc

lol nepal constitution crisis is now played by china vs all other nations including india.
Seems their new constitution gt thumbs up from china only making a suspicion of strategies that may destabilise Indian borders.. also its an entry point for currency, drugs, arms into India..
thats why i mentioned.. lol nepal is nt a serious block member but u never know say with Pak, Nepal and Sri lanka - India would be more pre occupied giving advantage to adversaries..

 

[ito]

Priorities of Russia changed. India and US can be better allies. We have so much to offer to each other.

 

[Abingdonboy]

we can't say not Russia.
russia is better than u.s
u.s betrays its ally's everytime
we can't trust them.

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.