Has Rick Switzer, US Deputy Trade Representative, come to India to read the riot act about the logistics deal with Russia?

Economist and commentator Prof Jeffrey Sachs described his visit as a “ strategic alarm bell disguised as a trade mission. The visit arrives at an extraordinary moment precisely when India and Russia are consolidating a new architecture of energy, logistics and defence that threatens to redraw the strategic map of the Indo-Pacific.”

In a commentary online, Sachs believes the US fears losing India officially. It senses India drifting towards Moscow by structural commitments. The RELOS military logistics pact for one, assured supplies of crude oil and an emerging financial ecosystem that quietly bypasses Western channels.

“Washington’s sudden outreach to Delhi is

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