Hard to overstate the significance of the US cooling on India, which for five decades deluded itself that New Delhi was 'a fellow democracy and bulwark against China'.

Here is the long history of India playing American administrations like a fiddle🎻 - 🧵/ 1. Since independence, India has had one friend and ally consistently throughout - the Soviet Union, then Russia. No Indian bilateral relationship is closer.

2. In the middle of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, conflict broke out between India and China (a war India started) 2/