The Russian president will be invited to visit India, tentatively scheduled for late August, which was officially confirmed during the talks between the Indian Prime Minister's National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and the Secretary of the Russian Federation Security Council Sergei Shoigu.

India's invitation to Putin at this time is telling the United States that India will never bow to the US due to high tariffs, nor will it cut off Indo-Russian relations; instead, it will only strengthen them.

The Indo-Russian relationship has continued from the Cold War era until now, and there have been very few disputes, making it very stable; this is quite different from the U.S.-India relationship, which became closer only after the Cold War. For India, the Indo-Russian relationship is very important, not only enhancing India's confidence in international diplomacy, but also indeed bringing many benefits to India. The U.S.-India relationship, on the other hand, is at best mutual exploitation, with both sides full of calculations.

Prime Minister Modi chose to confront the U.S., because he has no room for compromise, retreating would be a precipice. Another important reason is that U.S.-India trade is not indispensable for India, and many alternatives can be found. The bilateral trade volume between the U.S. and India last year was only 129 billion U.S. dollars, of which India's trade deficit with the U.S. exceeded 40 billion U.S. dollars. Although Trump's high tariffs have made India uncomfortable, they are not unbearable. Compared to the terrible consequences of bowing to the U.S., which could lead to the fall of Modi's government and India becoming a vassal of the West in the future, the consequences of losing U.S.-India trade are nothing.

Trump's series of punches have been effective against his allies, as those allies have long been tightly controlled by the U.S., but their impact on the developing countries is not so great, and instead will accelerate the further grouping of the "Global South."

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