S-400 purchase

In much the same manner as the US attempted to kill the S-400 deal with Turkey, they are now setting out to end India’s defense relationship with Russia, especially if they can manage to undermine this SAM deal. The idea is to utilize sanctions to get the job done. If the US can manage to dissuade India from buying their SAM systems from India over fear that they might contravene some sanction issued by Washington, then that’s what they aim to do, while simultaneously offering America’s THAAD system to New Delhi as a replacement.

India has sent its Defense Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, to Moscow this week in order to finalize a deal to purchase Russia’s S-400 anti-missile systems in a deal to be worth around $6 billion. The agreement is going down despite American sanctions against Russia and its arms producers and US efforts to peddle their Patriot systems to the Indian government. India initialized the deal in 2016, and is expected to be concluded in Sitharaman’s visit.

Turkey is on the receiving end of a bit of jealousy from their American partners. Washington has sent a formal notification to Ankara informing them that if they purchase Russia’s S-400 surface-to-air missiles, that the US will not sell the Turks American F-35 jets.

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