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By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in New Delhi on Dec. 10 in hopes of securing big-ticket deals.
Putin’s Russia is feeling severe economic pain caused by rising global energy sources, falling oil prices exacerbated by Western sanctions to punish Putin’s gambit in Ukraine.
India is by far the world’s largest weapons importing nation and has been a leading customer of Russia’s high-end weapons, from aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines to combat aircraft and missiles.
Yet in recent years, India’s economy has experienced robust growth which stimulated India to develop its own weapons platforms and to increase diversity of weapons import sources to include the United States, France and Japan.
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