Nehru's Non-alignment movement is taught as this brilliant pioneering policy for third world countries while all it did was maintain the ruling class' status quo in this country and try to fleece resources from both the sides even despite the fact that the west has always done the country wrong. Mother fuckers do not even mention the large number of communists that fought for this countries' freedom or the rights of the minorities. This unprincipled beaurocratic government is the worst part of this country.

it’s a non-denial-denial on the part of India

That's what they do when they get caught pants down. When Hindenburg published their report on how Adani inflate their stock prices inorganically they just got mad. No factual refutations in sight.

You are accused of fucking over one of your closest partners with the implication that evidence exists and your response is an 85-word pithy "statement" which just says "no".

So goddamned unprincipled

I'm positive they're going to side with the west enough to matter in the coming struggle. Oh they'll keep their options open, they'll pretend to be "independent" because it makes the west court them more and lets them play both sides but when it comes down to it and the west gives them a knife to plant in China's back for minimal benefit of their own they'll do it in a heartbeat. They see their rise as tied to destroying China, as a zero-sum calculation, either they take industry from China and become a great power or China retains it and they get nothing.

They labor under the same kind of ignorance that the bourgeoisie of Russia had after the USSR was illegally dissolved, namely that they would be let into the big anglo bourgeoisie club and rise to the heights of it as equals. But that moment where they realize otherwise could be decades away, the west has utility in keeping them a country with a vast gulf between the workers and the wealthy and in keeping them thinking its in their own interest to side with the west enough of the time to cause troubles for China, for Russia, for the emerging anti-imperialist world order.

India is IMO a fair-weather enemy for the anti-imperialist bloc. They're not like the US or Europe where there is little in common and a direct threat to their hegemony from the rise of BRICS+ but when the going gets tough they'll assume a neutral pose or do some things to appeal to the anti-imperialist bloc before tacking back again towards sabotaging it.