Surendran said Tharoor’s latest comment that India was uniquely placed to broker peace between Russia and Ukraine as praise for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s diplomatic acumen.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday briefed Russian President Vladimir Putin on his recent Ukraine visit.
Addressing a press meet with Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk in Warsaw, Mr Modi said the loss of innocent lives in any crisis has become the biggest challenge for the entire humanity. India firmly believes that no problem can be solved on the battlefield.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday firmly told Russian President Vladimir Putin that war is not a solution to the Ukraine crisis and said India is prepared to do what it takes to bring the ongoing conflict to an end.
The minister said that in the global economic uncertainties, Indian exporters showed resilience and exports of goods and services reached USD 773 billion.
Global support to the weaker nation can be expected mainly to stem and embarrass the adversary, rather than on ideology. Direct involvement by allies or even partners would be unlikely as it could expand the conflict drawing them in, implying proxy wars are possibly the new future. In such scenarios, chances of early peace are unlikely.
Arms manufacturers, the world over, are in clover. A year-long high intensity war, which shows no signs of ending, has sent the profits of arms manufacturers soaring to stratospheric levels. Plus, there has been the unexpected bonanza of testing hardware in live battlefield conditions. Oil companies have recorded windfall profits. The US has benefited by capturing the energy market in Europe from the Russians. Mercenaries, like the Wagner group are rolling in money by supplying convicts and other cannon fodder to the warring countries
Unipolarity has run its course and the lesson of the Ukrainian war is the inevitable movement towards multipolarity. The increased military assistance to Ukraine will only prolong that country’s agony just as it was in the case of Vietnam in the 1960s and 70s. A new world order is emerging with new centres of power. The war in Ukraine will accelerate this irreversible process
The war has resulted in high inflation, higher energy prices, less money with households and higher interest rates. The IMF director general feels that 2023 would be economically far worse.
Most countries, particularly developing and poorer countries, want peace to return immediately to this troubled region, both because they recognize the wider dangers of conflict escalation and also because they are already suffering from this conflict in various ways.
