Two potentates meet up at St. Petersburg — MK. Bhadrakumar

Not just the energy markets but also the weapons market. If the US "weaponizes" weapons supply the gap can be filled by Russia, either directly or through joint production arrangements as is already the case with India. And Russian weapons come with no strings attached.

Key sentence in the post: Sheikh Mohammed and his Saudi kinsperson, Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud had just handed down a strategic defeat to a superpower in the geopolitics of oil, as the world community witnessed disbelievingly and understood that the sun has set on the American Century in international politics.

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Two potentates meet up at St. Petersburg
MK. Bhadrakumar | retired diplomat with the Indian Foreign Service and former ambassador.

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