Vladimir Putin knows how to pack a punch. The combatant Russian president, an avid Judoka, applies two principles of Judo to diplomacy. One – move rapidly. Two – use the weight and strength of the opponent to your advantage rather than combating them directly.
In a deft move, Putin closed a $5.4 billion arms deal with India, selling the Russian S-400 Triumf surface-to-air missile defence systems. With this, Russia emerged as the winner with the ‘largest contract’ in the history of India-Russia defence ties. It’s also the ‘speediest’ arrangement to be signed between the two countries ‘without any protracted negotiations.’
Its news that Donald Trump would wish is – FAKE. But it isn’t, and he knows it.
Russia, now, commands a competitive edge over its arch-rivals – the United States and Israel – and is currently India’s biggest arms supplier. Russia managed to do this despite the US’ attempts to persuade other nations not to buy Russian weapons by threatening to invoke the Section 231 of Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA) of September 2017.
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