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Imran Khurshid's Article Published in Greater Kashmir titled "India’s Stance on the Ukraine War: Vindicated by History and Grounded in Pragmatism"

When the Russia-Ukraine war broke out in February 2022, much of the West viewed global responses through a binary lens, as usual—us versus them—defining countries as either supporters of Ukraine or allies of Russia. Western nations, particularly the United States and its European allies, presented this struggle in moralistic terms: democracy vs autocracy, good versus evil, the free world versus an expansionist dictatorships. Countries around the world were forced to choose sides. New Delhi was heavily pressured and repeatedly lectured that, being a democratic country, it should be on the “right side of history” and that China would take a lesson from this and might invade it. In the midst of this high-pressure geopolitical situation, New Delhi stood firm, measured, and rational.

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