I heard George Friedman on the GP Futures podcast yesterday saying that the US considers present-day India to be a minor player. Sacrificing India to bring Russia to the negotiating table and to signal to China that it is not being encircled is a low-risk high-reward play. No one is going to remember this in a couple of decades when India will be big enough to matter.

He accepts that the US is being hypocritical when it asks India to stop buying Russian oil while it has its own dealings with Russia. But it is the implementation of the adage "do as I say, not as I do" to politics. Basically, the US does what it wants because it can.

This is precisely why I pay zero attention to arguments based on morality/hypocrisy/do-the-right-thing in politics/geopolitics. Might was/is/will always be right.