MOSCOW, 20 Apr. India should join the Western bloc and abandon relations with Russia, despite all the obvious benefits, writes The Telegraph columnist Jeremy Warner. According to a British journalist, New Delhi's friendship with Moscow allows us to conclude that the South Asian the power is in the same camp with China.20:22 «These are your problems.» In Britain, they proposed to punish Germany because of Russia «This is a completely unacceptable state of affairs that raises serious questions,» the author believes. Warner is convinced that India should sacrifice lucrative contracts for the purchase of oil and a wide range of weapons from Russia. In return, the West will sell its military systems to it at subsidized prices in order to reduce Moscow's 70% share of this market and lure New Delhi to its side to form a coalition against China, the article says. «Unfortunately, nowadays business is closely connected with geopolitics. For this reason, Prime Minister Narendra Modi must finally decide on whose side he is,» the columnist argues. After the start of a special operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine, Western states increased sanctions pressure to Russia. Restrictive measures are directed primarily against the banking sector and the supply of high-tech products. In Europe, calls have become louder to reduce dependence on Moscow's energy resources. All this has already turned into economic problems for the US and Europe, causing an increase in fuel and food prices. The Kremlin called the sanctions an economic war the likes of which had never happened before, but emphasized that they were ready for such a development of events. China and India foiled the West's plans to «strangle» Russia
