Pay in rubles or have your gas shut off by April

[Sithara007]

How it is presented to the Americans, or to a housemate, or in the market - everyone is free to voice it as he likes. I just showed that the problem of low-quality Russian weapons is in no way connected with any requirements of third parties, but is of a long-standing and systemic nature. Plus, I don’t think that India is a country where the US will tell it what to do, India is not a technologically backward country with a resource economy, but a very significant part of the world economy, which has its own regional and global interests. And what is important - India has quite a significant weight in the world economy and is actively developing. The issue of developing your own helicopter platform is a matter of not a single decade, this is the development of entire sectors of the economy, technologies, this cannot be done quickly and immediately with high quality. Therefore, it is quite expected that after signing the development program tomorrow you will not receive your helicopter!

This is not the first time India is trying to replace the Russian made weapons with locally manufactured ones. The first attempts were made two decades ago. But everytime the HAL delivers low quality products (even worse then those from Russia) and in the end the defense ministry is forced to go back to dealing with Russia. One advantage with Russian weapons is that they are very affordable compared to the ones from France or Germany. And with one of the lowest per capita GDPs in the world, India can't afford to splurge a lot of money on imported weapons. And sourcing them from China is out of consideration, due to poor relationship between the two countries.

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[Cryptock]

How it is presented to the Americans, or to a housemate, or in the market - everyone is free to voice it as he likes. I just showed that the problem of low-quality Russian weapons is in no way connected with any requirements of third parties, but is of a long-standing and systemic nature. Plus, I don’t think that India is a country where the US will tell it what to do, India is not a technologically backward country with a resource economy, but a very significant part of the world economy, which has its own regional and global interests. And what is important - India has quite a significant weight in the world economy and is actively developing. The issue of developing your own helicopter platform is a matter of not a single decade, this is the development of entire sectors of the economy, technologies, this cannot be done quickly and immediately with high quality. Therefore, it is quite expected that after signing the development program tomorrow you will not receive your helicopter!

This is not the first time India is trying to replace the Russian made weapons with locally manufactured ones. The first attempts were made two decades ago. But everytime the HAL delivers low quality products (even worse then those from Russia) and in the end the defense ministry is forced to go back to dealing with Russia. One advantage with Russian weapons is that they are very affordable compared to the ones from France or Germany. And with one of the lowest per capita GDPs in the world, India can't afford to splurge a lot of money on imported weapons. And sourcing them from China is out of consideration, due to poor relationship between the two countries.

There is a lot of chaos in this region. The things are unstable - in India and Pakistan, and then there are super powers like Chine and Russia and then there is Afghanistan and Irqa and Iran on the other side. Will that instability end some day? I am not sure!

[harapan]

Europeans will have too be patient and endure at these times.
They cannot just ditch Russia immediately, they have to improvise and look for another source for gas supplies in Europe.
I think Saudi Arabia are good back ups, but how much gas can they contribute, can they emulate Russia ? As far as I know Russia has the highest proportion when it comes to gas supplies in the World and European nations about 45%

[Theones]

Europeans will have too be patient and endure at these times.
They cannot just ditch Russia immediately, they have to improvise and look for another source for gas supplies in Europe.
I think Saudi Arabia are good back ups, but how much gas can they contribute, can they emulate Russia ? As far as I know Russia has the highest proportion when it comes to gas supplies in the World and European nations about 45%

This fuel war is not going to end soon. However - Russia provide fuel at low cost.
This war has made trouble for many countries - including subcontinent. Sri Lanka and Pakistan faced so much trouble for not participated in their war.
Oh GOSH, the world is in chaos.

[be.open]

Today, Gazprom stopped gas supplies to the Netherlands for non-payment under the new scheme. It seems the same fate will befall Denmark.

[YinShuiSiYuan]

This is not the first time India is trying to replace the Russian made weapons with locally manufactured ones. The first attempts were made two decades ago. But everytime the HAL delivers low quality products (even worse then those from Russia) and in the end the defense ministry is forced to go back to dealing with Russia. One advantage with Russian weapons is that they are very affordable compared to the ones from France or Germany. And with one of the lowest per capita GDPs in the world, India can't afford to splurge a lot of money on imported weapons. And sourcing them from China is out of consideration, due to poor relationship between the two countries.

India spends 70 billion usd on its defence and same is volume of trade with China. India is now moving to west for procurement of weapons. The recent induction of rafale fighter from France is part of that move. Russian weapons are not that much advanced or reliable in 21st century compared to western weapon system.

[DrBeer]

Today, Gazprom stopped gas supplies to the Netherlands for non-payment under the new scheme. It seems the same fate will befall Denmark.

Yes, it's all true! And don't forget that this will also partially affect Germany But supporting terrorists and fascists, such as today's Russia, always leads to such consequences. I have already said this is a retribution for flirting with terrorists. There was no need to close your eyes and express "deep concern". Well, it will now be 2 times colder in houses in Germany in winter - but it will warm the idea that they "saved Putin's face" and "did not provoke Russia"! Did Germany really do well?
Regarding the stoppage of gas supplies to the Netherlands - they didn’t care about it, their honor and conscience are dearer to them! Moreover, they have LNG terminals, now they will increase the purchase of liquefied gas.
Denmark also turned out to be a country with an uncorrupted conscience and honor. Now they will simply increase production in the North Sea, and easily cover this shortage.