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Can India balance ties with both the US and Russia simultaneously?
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What happened
India has maintained a long-standing defence relationship with Russia while deepening strategic and economic ties with the United States. This balancing approach has drawn scrutiny from both partners at different points, particularly around energy imports and defence procurement, testing how sustainable a genuinely non-aligned posture remains in a more polarised global environment.
What the evidence says
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India has continued significant defence and energy trade with Russia even as global sanctions pressure has increased.
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India-US strategic and economic cooperation, including defence technology sharing, has deepened substantially in recent years.
What's unclear
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Whether this balancing act remains sustainable depends heavily on how global geopolitical alignments evolve.
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