Look there are different lobbies in USA .. Just like India . Democracy is messy .. Its not like russia china ... We down to the common men understand their language ( english ) ... lobbies keep releasing statements based on likes prejudice and money . But at the end of the day i dnt think morons take the final call when it comes to geopolitics . Any adverse action against india for some reason ll result in grave consequences for global order and interest of USA . And i dont see any reason for that .. we have come a long way since our nuclear test .
There are also people questioning reliability of Russia right now as china russia get closer and china increasingly getting hostile to india . So no immediate knee jerk conclusion should be drawn based on current scenario ...
But self reliance is instrumental to security of India .. There is need to invest more in research . that much we all agree on and what ever path we take it should lead us towards that goal .
Here your important points is - Russia China relation. Here add Russa Pakistan into it. Means we need to buy Russian equipment for slow down these relationship, and to make sure the tech to chinese don't possess a huge threat. Its is one reason, but not a major one. Second reason - veto power/ actually the major one considering Chinese economy.
3. having russia in our side plus usa support, chinese don't consider a major conflict with us. 4, nuclear tech, 5. natural resources 6. tech support from other areas. [We are not dumb to spend huge money to Russians]
Now lastly, simply look dpsu, ofb, hal they need russian tech to produce major equ. [too bad], and till date ussr/russia provided some tech rest equal to zero, that why modi ji don't like offsets and paid russia for tech.[Russia helping in human space flight/ ssbn etc]
One day our economic & tech become similar to eu/us/china and we need a lots of resources, africa, russia, aus can meet such needs. One way or another we all are depends each other, important thing is not allow others to take advantage of such conditions[china/pak/sco luring russia-the largest military/high tech provider to india]
If you consider US, they don't care about us, they want us to balance Chinese influence, there trying use us like a tool, they don't care a lot, and we seen their covid actions, EU a way better than US. No wounder why iaf interested in eu fighter jets /russian[old] and not usa ones.
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Till date we using russian tech in indigenous items, and most of gov weapon manuf depends on russian tech[hal/bel made some impv. using eu] and if you believe in self reliance[india] including tech then make sure india depends on africa/russia considering natural resources. Q. What is your issue with Russia, becz they sell some tech to us and rest nothing [spend 18b $ to usa with zero tech], just curious and I writing irrelevant things, no further comments on this topic[till 5th gen engine jv complection]. 114 rafale with critical tot[ engine jv/ ew for amca].