Arugula

Reality is often alien from moral idealism. Did the US and UK have any moral or legal right when they enslaved populations of Africa. Captures foreign lands. Supressed protests by bullets? Fact is, Russia is hardly doing any of those acts in the Arctic which the moral sayers were themselves guilty of in the past.

 
@ Mossad - “The whole world condemns this obsessive and greedy act on part of Russia, one cannot just use 15th century ideas to grab land in 21st century world.”

By whole world, do you mean Canada, US and UK? Because I don’t see many other countries complaining about it except the few Anglo-Saxon allies who are hardly represent world views.

Russia”has not attacked any country to grab thier territory”

—–Afghanistan 1979——

If you mean the Soviet Afghan War of the 80s, one would not really consider it an invasion when looking through a realistic neutral viewpoint. The term ‘invasion’ was used by NATO allies as a propaganda catchword against Soviet help extended to Afghan PDPA government to counter Islamic fundamentalists trying to bring down the government. The NATO countries, mainly US and UK felt threatened by the Soviet influence so close to the oil rich gulf and acted by using radical Islamism to asymmetrically counter Soviet troops. It haunts the United States still today, their own weapons turned back on them, after all Al Qaeda and Taliban were created by them. They used the brutal fascist nature of radical Islam to create anti-Soviet sentiments in the Arab world and after the unexpected collapse of Soviet Union the same Islamists changed target, against the ‘enemies of Islam’ next in line - United States of America. Such ‘ends justify the means‘ approach at handling problems by US helped creating unforeseen problems as ‘side effects‘.

Perhaps nobody should own this underwater continental shelf? Perhaps any resources extracted from this area should be used responsibly and for the benefit of people who are murdered every day because of global warming. Global warming has dried up rivers, lakes and other bodies of water and has resulted in drought, starvation and ensuing criminal riots. These are all murders that the entire world is responsible for.

Are you some kind of a russian agent in india ?? its disgusting leave the russian undercarriage alone. Please do some research and find out what US as a society stands for….undestand how that nation was built and from what..what the americans of 1940’s did….dont be naive and give in to the left’s propaganda.
And moreover be it nations or corporations they dont have emotions or friends…they have interests…interests mate…. if india canceled the next big arms deal with russia they will certainly try to sell the same weapons to pakistan..and by the way china already is a big market for russian weapons…its left to you to imagine against whom chinese will use these weapons.

In that sense the Russians can very well be trusted. Even on India’s war against China, it was the Russians who acted as a mediators between the two countries because both the countries are Russia’s friends. We know very well that the U.S cannot be a trusted friend as if you know their history, they supported and armed Iraq against Iran during their war in the 80’s.
Now the same U.S has made Iraq a hell by killing millions of innocent people. What for the U.S waged war against Iraq???? For W.M.D????? And if so where are they????? Even a school child can say that the stupid war is totally meant for oil and oil alone. If there is an option to choose between the U.S and the Russians as a friend we can simply choose the Russians because our trusted friendship is almost 60 years old. I register my views against the U.S only because of their stupid war against weak countries and their barbaric treatment of prisoners of war and mindless killings. I love the U.S as a country more than you but hate the policies of its politicians.

You should clarify your data…

There was a war in 1971 that extended into ‘72. BUT… Richard Nixon was the president at the time and he sent the U.S.S. Enterprise to the Bay of Bengal. Soviet Union did dispatch nuclear submarines that shadowed the Enterprise.

During the Indo-Pak war of 1971, the US stood for Pakistan with money, materials and moral support. The US agenda was to counter India from becoming a Soviet expanding force in Asia despite the fact that India chose not to side with any Cold War blocs. The USS Enterprise was sent in the hope that it can threaten and dissuade India from the war. If it had its way and were Soviet submarines not tailing it, India might have been the victim of another US holocaust. Now looking at the strategic point or view and considering past history, it would be abandoning old friends if India were to choose US over Russia.

At present, the US was conductive in providing India with low cost back end jobs so that their own production expenses are reduced. India is the ultimate destination for such jobs with its large pool of English speaking people, who are happy getting a salary that equals the amount an average American teenager spends on clubbing and fast foods. Not a bad deal.

The USSR ensured India stood in Asia as a political and military power of its own right. It let India be on its own, without interefering in India’s internal governance which is a lot from a superpower like Soviet Union. That is a far call from US activities in India’s neighbour Pakistan where it put a series of right wing dictators, when it feared a democratic government might have un-American policies. Would India have been any better off than Pakistan or Philippines if it was a US ally during the Cold War? I think that would be a food for thought for our readers, I reserve my views on this.

When we look at history we should go by the facts rather than idlyllic justifcations. It is natural of the US to claim good things about itself, it is naive to take it as a scientific theory. Expecting Americans to have open views about US acitivies around the world is like expecting the Catholic cardinals to speak of the virtues of Buddhism over Christianity.