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Re:$200M a year, 700k tons of rice, space tech: deal for Nor... by mannyv on Sunday November 03, 2024 @02:30PM (#42035477)
India isn't funding anything in the war, AFAIK. Just because they're BRICS doesn't mean they're doing anything in the war.

And Russia's "partners" are a shit country stuck in 1880 (North Korea) and, well, China. China's great at intimidating third world countries, but in reality their support and capabilities are limited. As for India, well, back in the old days India would have taken Eastern Russia, since the Russian armed forces are busy trying not to get killed.

At least China and India seem to have cooled down their border issues.

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Re:$200M a year, 700k tons of rice, space tech: deal for Nor... by zip1234 on Sunday November 03, 2024 @02:43PM (#42035576)
India is funding the war for Russia by buying all their oil.
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Re:$200M a year, 700k tons of rice, space tech: deal for Nor... by gruez on Sunday November 03, 2024 @02:47PM (#42035614)
There's a pretty big difference between "funding" a war by buying oil (BRICS/Non-Aligned), and "funding" a war by giving military aid (the West). Also, The West is still buying oil from Russia because for some countries there's still no alternative.

https://www.economist.com/europe/2024/09/05/the-west-still-n...

https://archive.is/V0Efv

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Re:$200M a year, 700k tons of rice, space tech: deal for Nor... by HDThoreaun on Sunday November 03, 2024 @08:51PM (#42037713)
Russia sells oil to india, buys rice. Russia sends rice to korea, buys people and ammunition. How is India not funding russian war efforts?
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Re:$200M a year, 700k tons of rice, space tech: deal for Nor... by ivewonyoung on Monday November 04, 2024 @12:49PM (#42044133)
You buy a laptop on eBay because you desperately need one for work to feed yourself and you can only afford the cheap one on eBay. The seller buys rice with that money and hires a hitman by paying him the rice, the hitman goes on a shooting spree, how did you not fund that shooting spree?
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Re:$200M a year, 700k tons of rice, space tech: deal for Nor... by HDThoreaun on Monday November 04, 2024 @02:22PM (#42045115)
India knows their money is being used for war. You dont know your money is being used for murder. If you did you would be an accomplice, yes.
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Re:$200M a year, 700k tons of rice, space tech: deal for Nor... by ivewonyoung on Monday November 04, 2024 @03:14PM (#42045583)
Europe knows their money is being used for war in their own backyard when they buy oil from India.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-oil-e...

Why isn't Europe an accomplice?

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Re:$200M a year, 700k tons of rice, space tech: deal for Nor... by HDThoreaun on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @04:28PM (#42055325)
they are
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Re:$200M a year, 700k tons of rice, space tech: deal for Nor... by jajko on Sunday November 03, 2024 @02:46PM (#42035598)
Sure they are, buying cheap natural resources from russia in vast quantities. Those money go directly to war efforts, well what isn't stolen by whole kleptocratic structures in russian government but I presume this pipeline is more monitored and subdued now as putin specifically focused on that.
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Re:$200M a year, 700k tons of rice, space tech: deal for Nor... by ChumpGPT on Sunday November 03, 2024 @02:40PM (#42035560)
https://finance.yahoo.com/video/big-indian-firm-sends-nvidia...

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/indias-increase...

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