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[Ripley]

And Turkey isn't as important as India for US' future plans regarding Pacific. Neither is it the second biggest country on the planet.

Yes. Please keep this in mind for future reference.
India is unique.
They can purchase, joint develop, manufacture almost any military hardware from Western countries, Russia and China at the same time due its economical size and political influence which rapidly increasing not only regionally but also beyond.

 

[Ripley]

nope, but they got a CAATSA sanctions waiver, they can go buy whatever they want

Until they violate a CAATSA rule from US point of view.

 

[Khagan1923]

Until they violate a CAATSA rule from US point of view.

India will never face CAATSA because the US needs them against China. India is aware of this and walks along the edge. Unless they do something very egregious i.e. send troops to Ukraine, send Russia material help in their war, the US will never sanction them. Also India has good relations with Israel which helps in Washington.

Also India was never offered the F-35 and was not about to receive a batch of them when they decided to go and purchase the S-400. I'm sure if India played it the same way we did they too would have faced consequences. (Never receiving their F-35).

India also does not buy American tech, it is mostly Israeli and European. I think their major American purchase was the AH-64.

 

[guest12]

India will never face CAATSA because the US needs them against China. India is aware of this and walks along the edge. Unless they do something very egregious i.e. send troops to Ukraine, send Russia material help in their war, the US will never sanction them. Also India has good relations with Israel which helps in Washington.

Also India was never offered the F-35 and was not about to receive a batch of them when they decided to go and purchase the S-400. I'm sure if India played it the same way we did they too would have faced consequences. (Never receiving their F-35).

India also does not buy American tech, it is mostly Israeli and European. I think their major American purchase was the AH-64.

India license produce Russian tank ammunations and they already sent them to Russia

 

[Sanchez]

Please let's remain on topic.

 

[Ripley]

India will never face CAATSA because the US needs them against China. India is aware of this and walks along the edge. Unless they do something very egregious i.e. send troops to Ukraine, send Russia material help in their war, the US will never sanction them. Also India has good relations with Israel which helps in Washington.

Also India was never offered the F-35 and was not about to receive a batch of them when they decided to go and purchase the S-400. I'm sure if India played it the same way we did they too would have faced consequences. (Never receiving their F-35).

India also does not buy American tech, it is mostly Israeli and European. I think their major American purchase was the AH-64.

That’s what I meant when I say from the US POV, which will never happen, like you put it.

They “severely warned” India when they went for S400 but nothing happened.
So, do not consider it like it’s etched on rocks for eternity. The US will manevour around it or strike in the middle as it pleases her.

 

[Huelague]

The whole discussion about sanctions on Kaan might be right. On the other hand, these sanctions backfired and hit the own defense industry and strengthened our own defense industry and capabilities. Maybe they will think twice before they sanctioned us again.

 

[Zoth]

The whole discussion about sanctions on Kaan might be right. On the other hand, these sanctions backfired and hit the own defense industry and strengthened our own defense industry and capabilities. Maybe they will think twice before they sanctioned us again.

The question here is not whether we are going to succeed or not, because we are going to succeed no matter what, it's a matter of time, we have no other choice.