I think its primarily an anti USA and economic factor that drives russian to invest in pak.
Good part for india is that india gets another country apart from china to provide leverage in case of issues against pakistan...
1. Troll Post - Thread is about Pakistan-Russia..NOT China or India
2. So you admit India despite its superpower, superpower hoopla is still behind China in regional leverage and despite all the anti-China trolling, it actually needs China to talk to Pakistan??
3. Russia is a regional heavy weight and actually is the only country with some balls to confront USA in a manner the Chinese cannot because their trade with USA is very important.
4. Tilting of two major regional powers in Pakistan favour is definately a diplomatic accomplishment.
lol Russia thinking it had made a mistake?Lmao are u kidding me?
It on the que of improved relations with India tht Russia has been given the green to intervene in this geopolitical game(that touches on Indian sensitivities).
and ull be utterly naive if ud think tht America wasn't in on this too.
Im must say tho im impressed ,
What Russia has definitely learnt form China, is how to heard the Green sheep ;
and has definitely upped its ante in its geopolitical ambitions.
Balancing much of the reasons of any kind of conflict.Polatical,PRoxy or military.
Having said this ...this equation is gonna bring about a strong balance in the region ... a win win for everyone.
Give it some time and ull see Russia making advances into Afghanistani development as well..
though appeasing Pakistan would bee a correct move in every respect ...this way Pakistan doesn't feel isolated ..and will welcome Russia in Afganistan.
Something which led to total economic collapse of Soviet Union should be regarded as a mistake or an accomplishment you decide?? So why were they not herding this Green Sheep since the cold war days?? A regional heavy weight needs approval of India to advance relationships with Pakistan, a country which is too busy itself in forgetting their friends and making new colonial friends. Now its a well known confession of Hillary that India incursions into Afghanistan and now in SEA are American instigated for advancement regional ambitions!. So India effectively is American foreign policy "sheep" which can be herded where they please!
The only professional green sheep herders are Indians who knew how to "use" soviet union desperation to settle their own scores.
I don't think Russia is interested in Afghanistan. While americans are trying hard to damage their own economy, it is time for Russia to improve its own economy...
Then how do you think they plan to build the 1000KM power transmission line from Central Asia to Pakistan?? Russian influence will greatly stablize Afghanistan because they are present just next door and it current context of war, cannot be seen as invaders. Where as American who came from a different continent to carpet bomb Afghanistan will never be precivied as friendly once their pupper Karzai falls in Kabul!
Its just a type of Loan. Pakistan will have to repay interest along with Debt. Otherwise why Russia is going to give Pakistan $1 Billion when it won't benefit in business sense. Hope Pakistan will use this money in best way.
The Steel Mills were originally established by the Russian and they obviously still have its blue prints. The grant is a form of investment and a large part of it will not be cash but rather goods, machinery and services needed for expansion of Steel Mills.
What about collaboration in Sukhoi T-50. Few days ago I was watching an opinion poll on Pakistani News Channel about Russians and 70% Pakistanis hate Russians.
The Russians needed the money and the Indians needed the hardware. As simple as that! Most of the framework and tech will still be done with Russian talent. Russia is increasingly becoming fedup of being milked for cheap by the shrewed Indians! Its time to look on the greener side of the grass.
Russia knows that Pakistan got the control of USA within their hands. So he wanna control US through Pakistan.....See Putin is so intelligent. He reversed the US game within their favor.....Excellent Putin keep it up we will repay it back to U......
Its not about control its about striking at the right moment when iron is hot. The people of Pakistan and Afghanistan are highly sentimental and given recent turn of events, they will never consider American friendly as long it has got its boots on the Afghan ground. The Russians are simply taking advantage of the opportunity to play good cop vs bad cop. This is politics!
The Chinese gave us the dreams, the inspiration and the will power long before they had actual hard cash to finance it too.
On the other side, enjoy you India super power dreams directed by Nehru, India Asian power dreams directed by Hillary and now after failure in Afghanistan, India SEA power also directed by Hillary! In reality, as posted by a member above India "hopes" on leverage of China and now of Russia to deal with Pakistan?? How pathetic for a country which dreams to be a super power but cannot deal with its small neighbor without the support of two major regional powers!
Russians are businessmen, man how this reminds of the RD-93 and JF-17 episode.... all sorts of you folks saying ..... how RD-93 could be stopped because of Indian pressure.
Now lets see..... how many RD-93s do the Chinese have?
The Russians have far come off the Soviet facade of friendship. They have realized that politics are brutal and every country needs to run their economy smoothly. After all, their best friends India is also following the same logic of "Best bang for the buck". So what stops Russians for selling what they will?
