India is kinda over a barrel at the moment. They can barely feed all their people at the best of times, and the war in Iran has made fertilizer costs skyrocket. I don’t know the details of the deal, but I bet that, under the hood, the deal is actually “you give us massive amounts of fertilizer and fuel to keep our country fed and our economy out of the gutter, and we’ll let some of your troops and ships on our territory - but you’re not allowed to launch attacks from here”.
Russia gets to expand it’s influence at a time of waning influence. And India gets to feed it’s people and keep it’s economy running - when the alternative was some amount of starvation and the possible overthrow of the government.
India is kinda over a barrel at the moment. They can barely feed all their people at the best of times, and the war in Iran has made fertilizer costs skyrocket. I don’t know the details of the deal, but I bet that, under the hood, the deal is actually “you give us massive amounts of fertilizer and fuel to keep our country fed and our economy out of the gutter, and we’ll let some of your troops and ships on our territory - but you’re not allowed to launch attacks from here”.
Russia gets to expand it’s influence at a time of waning influence. And India gets to feed it’s people and keep it’s economy running - when the alternative was some amount of starvation and the possible overthrow of the government.