'It Won't Work With India': Parag Khanna Says US Pressure Can't Move Delhi

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Parag Khanna, the founder and CEO of AlphaGeo which is a geospatial analytics firm recently gave a statement that India's foreign policy is currently being shaped by Hard economic realities rather than lofty Ideals.

"India is looking after its own interests, and its policy towards Russia is a very fundamental case study in this," said Khanna. "It was even before Trump was elected, the Biden administration that sought to pressure India very heavily to join in the sanctions regime against Russia. But as I told people then, I said, good luck with that."

"This notion of democracy or driven foreign policy is not going to work when you're dealing with a country like India that has a very high current account surplus and trade deficit when it comes to commodities imports," Khanna told NDTV CEO and Editor in Chief Rahul Kanwal at Davos.

Khanna is a top Global Strategy Advisor and statement like this from a source like him can be said very highly verifiable.

He added India is not alone in this approach, Japan which is a true american ally too has been seeking all its options to get acccess to cheap Russian energy, Europe too which acts as if under attack by Russia has been actively purchasing Russian Oil and Gas.

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