The United States fell into the trap of its own sanctions. We are talking about a package CAATSA economic constraints, which the US initially threatened to apply to countries, decided to continue the implementation of the military-technical cooperation with Russia. And if the initial threat of sanctions, it seemed Washington, looked effective, now the trap snapped shut – at that moment, when the foot is in the stars and striped socks firmly decided to get on the Indian soil.
The thing is, India is uniquely made it clear, that if the US will talk to New Delhi only in the language of sanctions, the state will be forced to abandon the military-technical cooperation with the States themselves. This was actually plain text expressed the Minister of Defense of India Nirmala Sitharaman. According to Ms. Sitharaman, India is preparing to acquire Russian S-400 anti-aircraft missile complexes, and these complexes in the Russian Federation in the near future zakontraktuet.
At this point, there was a note in the Indian media about, that US officials (congressmen group) We were forced after a visit to India to return to Washington with nothing. It is now preparing a new American political and military troops, who will try to disembarrass American leg of the Indian trap. After all, if India will acquire the S-400 from Russia, it will mean a frank spitting in the direction of the United States and the sanctions threat. Little of, and other geopolitical players, given the Indian experience, will be able to threaten the United States break the military-technical cooperation in the case of the ban by the United States on contacts with Russia. Generally, the American side of the falls hard to move the windings in order to find a way out, which themselves and tired out.
meanwhile, India discusses how, where the first set of S-400 after their acquisition in Russia. At the moment, as noted by Nirmala Sitharaman, the advantage is given to the Indo-Chinese border, length of which is more 3,3 thousand. km.
