There’s a lesson for India in the wars going on overseas
It should go without saying that fighting wars is a nasty business. The political, economic and moral corrosion that wars bring with their onslaught is often difficult for distant onlookers to decipher from the outside.
In a contemporary context, this is especially true; for people who are not involved directly, wars are largely an audio-visual experience, to be imbibed merely as information or entertainment, devoid of their political and strategic contexts. And for a large part of the developed world, which had lulled itself into believing that wars would only be fought in faraway lands without imposing any significant costs directly, this is a moment of reckoning.
Europe is struggling to find an adequate response to the challenge of managing Russian aggression against Ukraine. When French President Emmanuel Macron recently suggested that while there was “no consensus" on sending Western troops to Ukraine, “nothing should be excluded," it resulted in a strong response not only from the Russians, but also from the US and France’s European partners such as Germany and the UK.
The US promptly made it clear that the “path to victory" in Europe is to provide Ukraine with military aid, “so Ukrainian troops have the weapons and ammunition they need to defend themselves," and that “the US will not send troops to fight in Ukraine." The UK too underlined that it had no plans for a large-scale military deployment to Ukraine, beyond the small number of personnel already training Ukrainian armed forces. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz also reiterated that no European country or Nato member state would send troops to Ukraine.
This is a delicate moment in the Ukraine war. Two years into the conflict, Russia seems to have an upper hand
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