While Putin is isolated by the West, India has doubled down on buying Russian oil. Prime Minister Modi calls his country's friendship with Moscow 'unbreakable.'
they understand India's energy needs and were hoping only that India would not"accelerate" Russian oil purchases.Earlier this month, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Resources Geoffery Pyatt said Washington is"comfortable" with India's approach on Russian oil. And Karen Donfried, the assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian Affairs, said the U.S. is not looking at sanctioning India for this.
"U.S. treasury officials have two main goals: keep the market well supplied and deprive Russia of oil revenue," Ben Cahill, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, Indian defense experts may have been the only ones not surprised to see Russian tanks falling apart in Ukraine this past year, Pande says. They've been unhappy with Russian equipment for years.
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