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What’s with this fear mongering? Turkey is being sanctioned because of Erdogan and the US having become tired of his caliphate ambitions. Who on earth will sanction India similarly. We are not an NATO ally and most of the sanctions of the type put on Turkey will have almost no impact on India...

Always my friend, always. Pride is visceral, reason requires a cool head.

I’m in doubt what the current President of the US is doing, it’s a country with whom we run a $30 billion trade surplus. Which is why I see things clearly, no place for mindless sentimentality. We can’t throw Russia under the bus and the Americans know that. They will want something in return...

You doubt what exactly? That the comments of the former President of France has caused no damage? The supreme Court has cleared nothing, a hearing is still to be held .This is now a political issue and I doubt Mr. Modi will want to dip his hand in this pot again. As far as irritating Trump...

Unfortunately the Rafale business will continue to cast it's dark clouds for some time. The amount of damage your former President has done is not trivial. Nor are the NGO's insinuating corruption on that deal helping. There are some intermediate consequences to all this.

There's no point in assuming anyone is better than the other , no one is running a charity. Thet have their interests and we have ours. The russians give us things that no one else will, including the French. The Israelis give us some cutting edge stuff. We have to buy from the Americans because...

The threat of sanctions on S 400 is a bit of a red herring.The US does not think India will give in on that but hopes to apply pressure and force India to give in on the economic front.

Ya sure, that’s why French companies are shying away from Iran.... We have strong economic ties with the US with considerable surplus in our favour on trade. France is a strategic partner but it’s is not the equal of the US either in trade or services, from Indian perspective.

Trump doesn’t care much about these policies. He is after India bucking in on US demands on dairy products, medical devices, localisation of data issues and on e commerce. On Venezuela and Iran, it was either to follow US policy or face sanctions. Those two were probably not worth clashing with...

There may or not be an alternative but this isn't about that. Trump is using this to pressure India to give in on economic matters. We are in for a bit of a tough time in our relationship with the US.