... leadership positions in any of the alliances it has entered after WW2 (such as NATO or AUKUS). India is clearly not ready and will not be ready anytime soon to become a junior... ... reservations about BRICS or SCO, but these two organizations are essential to balance Quad and other formats of growing cooperation with the West. Furthermore, a deeper engagement... ... maintaining its traditional friendships in Eurasia and exploring new opportunities with Russia or Iran. Evidently, India will not wish to stand together with the U.S. in its...
... leadership will have no realistic alternatives but embark on a closer rapprochement with Washington, while Russia will be forced to drift further towards Beijing. This will allegedly result, albeit not in the near future, in the official establishment of Russia–China and India–U.S. political and military alliances—or, as far as the latter case goes, in the Quad transforming into a multilateral alliance similar to the recently established AUKUS (between Australia, the UK and the U.S.).
Pessimists believe that Moscow and New Delhi do not share perspective on the future of global politics, with the gap becoming ever larger. They go on to
claim
that the “privileged” bilateral relations ...
