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Originally Posted by Kasi
India PM basically told Putin to stop the war. Xi the other day pretty much said the same. If Russia doesn’t want to lose control of their Asian protectorates they need to get out of Ukraine. We’re seeing war spring up between ex Russia states and Russia telling them don’t do that isn’t working. Those counties just don’t fear Russias military right now. Considering India and China are the only two big powers nominally on their side they’re going to have to listen to them or just be isolated even more and fall into being a backwater regional power.
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I think saying India and China are even nominally on Russia's side is a bit of a stretch. Nothing that they're doing is done to benefit Russian interests, they're on their own sides.
India for example is blatantly taking advantage of Russia's weak position, as they're buying Russian oil at a really significant discount compared to market prices. They're then refining it locally and selling it to the west as "Indian", or sometimes just relabeling it. Well, the last part is "alleged", but the evidence seems compelling that this is what's going on. In any case, getting tons of oil under the global market price is a great deal for India. Just basic war profiteering really.
China similarly is making very nice profits off of Russia. They also just don't want to do what the US tells them to do.