Oh open your markets, let us sell our products in your country, but no intellectual transfers, give us cheap labour but we won’t give you better farming technologies, you can lease those technologies, pay heavy royalties, we will sell you defense equipment, but we won’t teach you how to service them, we will charge you exorbitant fees to maintain your defense equipment.
We are trying to be your friend, why won’t you be my friend?
Not justifying, but India has no friends (as much as you can have in geopolitics). Makes sense they would trade with Russia for what they can get.
That is at least partially their own fault for not being a friend. Plenty of countries have reached out over the years trying to be a friend.
Oh open your markets, let us sell our products in your country, but no intellectual transfers, give us cheap labour but we won’t give you better farming technologies, you can lease those technologies, pay heavy royalties, we will sell you defense equipment, but we won’t teach you how to service them, we will charge you exorbitant fees to maintain your defense equipment.
We are trying to be your friend, why won’t you be my friend?