This is the 4th time the leaders had direct talks since the Russia-Ukraine war began. According to the PMO, Modi reiterated India's position in favour of dialogue & diplomacy.
Dictators have higher pain thresholds than democratic leaders, giving all the more reason to keep up pressure and making it harder for Russia to reshape and regroup.
India’s domestic gas production is already tiny & it has shrunk by 40% over past nine years. Keeping that base narrow with unsustainable pricing wasn’t a financially prudent move.
All things considered, might it have been better & cheaper, shed less blood, and avoided a huge refugee problem if Russia had been allowed a buffer zone in Eastern Europe?
Two quotes by historian Toynbee are relevant to current events — that civilisations die by suicide, and that West committed ‘unpardonable aggression’ against non-European nations.
Known as the architect of Russia’s 1990s privatizations, Chubais gave Putin his first Kremlin job in the mid-1990s and initially welcomed his rise to power.
The attack on Chhayanaut, newspaper offices, and the public lynching of a Hindu man show that Bangladesh is heading toward Islamist rule, far removed from electoral democracy.
It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.
If Pathaan gave both conservatives and liberals room to hide, Dhurandhar extends no such courtesy. Aditya Dhar ripped open that tent of hypocrisy and turned the knife.
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