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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just dont get it.  Great article in WAPO today

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/06/20/india-us-relations-modi/

These days, New Delhi similarly refuses to toe the American line on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. India’s import of cheap Russian oil continues to break records. Anyone who wants to see Indian leaders stand up and publicly assail the Kremlin — one of their main suppliers of weaponry and a valuable source of raw materials — is in for a long wait.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/06/20/modi-cinema-muslim-hatred/

Anurag Kashyap, one of India’s most celebrated filmmakers, told me that producers are being asked to make films to government spec. “Powerful Hindu nationalist groups like the RSS [Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh] are meeting producers and telling them what films are to be made so it can empower the government’s own agenda,” Kashyap said.[/quote]

A few things.  First, India and non-aligned countries in general resent the pressure to toe the Western line.  They've had enough and they want to pick their own friends and enemies.  They simply do not see this war as anything to do with them - they do not buy the (stupid) narrative that this is some sort of existential battle for good and evil, and that Russia must be stopped or else.  Quite correctly, they see that this is not true, and in their eyes this war is a regional conflict of the sort they've seen play out hundreds and thousands of times, without any great powers getting involved.

Secondly, there is a strong and long tradition of affection and respect toward Russia in India. While the British colonization rule destroyed native industries so their own can prosper and worked to turn India all industrial, the USSR provided ample aid to India to build their industrial base and train hundreds of thousands of Indians as engineers etc. at Soviet universities.   Most of India's weapons are Russian made.

Most of aspirational culture commodities everywhere are government controlled through voluntary censorship so it's not surprising what the Indian filmmakers say.[/quote]

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