The Trump administration said the S-400 missile defence system deal could result in US sanctions on India under the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA).
On May 2018, India was placed on the list of countries with potentially questionable foreign exchange policies along with China, Germany, Japan, South Korea and Switzerland.
The Trump administration said its pressure campaign was working and reiterated its position on not sanctioning waivers to countries looking to buy oil from Iran.
WhatsApp was hacked by a software developed by Israeli firm NSO, which is a small part of the unregulated environment of hackers, developers & sovereign govts.
Greens have a sizeable support in the Western countries with clean air and blue skies, but not in India, where poisonous air, water and soil kill millions.
The helicopters produced by Lockheed Martin are known as ‘submarine hunters’. India ordered 24 of these aircraft in 2020 to replace the Sea King helicopters. 15 have been delivered till date.
The India-South Africa series-defining fact is the catastrophic decline of Indian red ball cricket where a visiting team can mock us with the 'grovel' word.
India needs the United States, true, a big, black umbrella for an especially stormy night. However, the United States too needs an ally in Asia of the stature and influence that India, increasingly, will come to acquire. India cannot have an exclusive relationship with America to the exclusion of all others, some of which have sustained and strengthened it for most of its post independence history. Russian military hardware remains the bedrock of India’s defence forces, notwithstanding considerable diversification in recent years. The two countries need to have an honest conversation like good friends. Strategic autonomy is not something India can or should discard.
Just a few months ago, there was a highly publicized visit by SItharaman and Swaraj to the US. After that, SItharaman stated that everything including India’s long relationship with Russia has been explained . The impression given then was that the US is OK this one time , about the S 400.
This current statement by the US State Dept trashes all that Sitharamn and Swaraj were saying. It appears that their impressions were highly optimistic if not downright mistaken and were made just to please the PM and the public.
India needs the United States, true, a big, black umbrella for an especially stormy night. However, the United States too needs an ally in Asia of the stature and influence that India, increasingly, will come to acquire. India cannot have an exclusive relationship with America to the exclusion of all others, some of which have sustained and strengthened it for most of its post independence history. Russian military hardware remains the bedrock of India’s defence forces, notwithstanding considerable diversification in recent years. The two countries need to have an honest conversation like good friends. Strategic autonomy is not something India can or should discard.
Just a few months ago, there was a highly publicized visit by SItharaman and Swaraj to the US. After that, SItharaman stated that everything including India’s long relationship with Russia has been explained . The impression given then was that the US is OK this one time , about the S 400.
This current statement by the US State Dept trashes all that Sitharamn and Swaraj were saying. It appears that their impressions were highly optimistic if not downright mistaken and were made just to please the PM and the public.
What if US changed its stand after tif with turkey..nirmala stated what the current situation was at that time..she is not a forecast expert