Once it becomes untenable to hide WashingtonтАЩs crimes, the best option seems to be to hem and haw, furnish caveats and drag out an explanation. It gives тАЬcontextтАЭ to US infractions and the muted response from India. Protect the myth of a healthy strategic partnership at all costs while the real costs of depending on the US for jet engines, LLMs, operating systems, satellite data, heavy lift aircraft, critical military hardware and much more, mount.
Decades from now, the pivot to America will be viewed as one of the most hare brained foreign policy moves by the Indian establishment. It merely delays indigenization, capacity building and reform implementation. The outcome - limited strategic maneuverability and diminished sovereignty. Precious decades are wasted on a partnership with a flailing hegemon that ruthlessly arm twists partners so long as it helps preserve unipolarity.
MEA Spox Randhir Jaiswal says "attacks are coming from US side"; Points, "2 of the vessels are sanctioned ship, one of them non compliant ships"