According to ** reports, the United States and the West have been wielding the "big stick of sanctions" against Russia, but with little effect. Now, for the first time, the European Union has accused Chinese and Indian companies of linking them to the invasion of Ukraine, imposing sanctions on Chinese and Indian companies, claiming that the move is aimed at "weakening Russia's ability to attack Ukraine."
We are not outside the sanctions, but why is India? He also deserves it? If you want to say it, you can only say it: the Great Seal is a world power where British orthodoxy is located.
In fact, India is the world's third largest importer and consumer, and before the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, it had been dependent on oil from the Middle East.
With the outbreak of the conflict, India's oil import landscape has changed dramatically. They began to buy Russian oil in large quantities, which led to a sharp drop in oil imports from the Middle East. Russia has become India's largest oil country, importing 11 times more than in the previous fiscal year.
Why did India make such a choice? The answer is simple, and that is that Russian oil is relatively cheap.
For example, from January to September 2023, India imported 69.06 million tons of Russian oil, and last year it bought $37 billion in Russian oil. If the oil were to be imported from Iraq, India would have to pay an additional $2.7 billion. Now, that savings equate to an additional $2.7 billion for India.
Not only that, but India also refines and processes these cheap Russian oils, and then sells them at a higher price to countries that have imposed sanctions on Russia, such as selling them back to the European Union. Of course, the EU also knows that this kind of behavior has been criticized by Western countries as "oil washing". For this reason, the United States even directly called India an "internal ghost".
It doesn't end there. Outside of the oil sector, Turkey has also demonstrated close cooperation with Russia.
In 2023, Turkey's exports of military products to Russia more than tripled compared to the same period last year, including sensitive products such as military chips. This is not only financial support, but also provides substantial help to Russia in wartime.
If we want to talk about internal ghosts, in fact, the United States itself cannot get rid of it. In October last year, the United States began to resume oil imports from Russia. In the first half of 2023 alone, the United States bought $700 million in fertilizers from Russia. Even in 2022, the year of the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian war, the United States still purchased $1 billion worth of enriched uranium under the condition of imposing comprehensive economic sanctions on Russia.
Therefore, there are no eternal enemies or eternal friends in this world, only eternal interests.
In complex international relations, each country is running for its own interests. And who is the real winner in this seemingly complicated international chess game? Perhaps only time will tell.