India ignores US pressure – Advancement on Russia Missile Deal

Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman asserted on Friday that India will go ahead with the Rs. 39,000 crore Russia Missile deal. In which acquisition of five advanced S-400 Triumf air defence missile systems from Russia despite pressure for the US.

India has reached the “conclusive stage” in the process of procurement of the missiles and the dealings have been going on far longer before the recent US law CAATSA ( Countering America’s Adversaries through Sanctions Act) came into force in order to discourage countries from buying weapon systems from Russia.

Jim Mattis, American Defence Minister and Mike Pompeo, American Foreign Minister have argued for “national security waivers and reliefs” for countries like India, which has military dealings worth $12 billion with Russia and well as constant maintenance requirements of the largely Russian arsenal of military weapon technology,

India and US will also discuss bilateral military pacts like Communications, Compatibility and Security Arrangement (COMCASA) and the Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement for Geo-Spatial Cooperation (BECA), which are being strongly forwarded the US for over 15 years in the two-plus-two meetings.

Final positions with the US are yet to arrive but the dealing with Russia will surely affect the negotiation climate between the two countries. Even after the Cold War ended, Russia and the US remain on questionable and passively hostile terms with each other and are pulling other countries within their own argument thus resulting in the nation-states being obligated to take sides, which works against the UN Peacekeeping Efforts as it creates deadlocks in negotiation procedure and hostile tendencies among and between nations that are caught in the middle of the US- Russia conflict.

It can be hoped for that India gets away unscathed and carries on whatever actions necessary to strengthen its deterrent capabilities while gliding over any kind of pressure that is exerted other superpowers.

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