It's that old adage: your friends' friends' are not always your friends. Over the years, #India has drifted towards the United States, partly helped by its border tensions with #China. But even the invasion of #Ukraine cannot break the historic ties binding Delhi to Moscow - from arms and oil imports to the non-aligned strategic autonomy that steered India through the Cold War.

So can India stay out of it? Can anyone? If nations don't actively oppose the invasion, do they enable it?

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