Why India is Suddenly Abandoning Russia - Paul Warburg

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India and China are abandoning Russian oil, seemingly overnight. For years Russia's shadow fleet has evaded sanctions and continued sales to China and India. Most people assumed this was for ideological reasons, and that India and China were Russia's allies. But now, that's been flipped on its head, showing the relationships are based on little more than mere convenience and personal interest. The implications are large - first for the war in Ukraine and Russia's revenues, and second, for how we understand India and China as a whole. We can take these learnings to grow a greater understanding of geopolitics - with some surprising insights.