The Hindu cited unnamed government sources to report that “U.S. officials have spoken to the Ministry of External Affairs about joining their actions against what they call ‘Russian disinformation’, by revoking accreditations and designating their journalists under the ‘Foreign Missions Act’. However, while the Ministry has been silent on the issue, government officials said that the debate on sanctions is not relevant to India.” The US should have known that India wouldn’t ever capitulate to its demands. The decades-long Russian-Indian Strategic Partnership has been rejuvenated over the past two and a half years since the special operation began after India stepped up to preemptively avert Russia’s potentially disproportionate dependence on China. Time and again, India has responded to American pressure to distance itself from Russia by redoubling their relations, which is predicated on accelerating tri-multipolarity processes with a view towards jointly midwifing complex multipolarity (“multiplexity”). On the soft power front, a survey carried out by India’s prestigious Observer Research Foundation in late 2022 showed that their country’s youth regarded Russia as their most reliable partner. Meanwhile, a US-based global business intel company confirmed two months later that adults view Russia as the country most allied to their own. This backdrop explains why so many were confused over the summer when it […]