Yikes India. And here I though they were just whoring themselves out for some cheap fossil fuel, which tbf is a geopolitical classic. This makes them look at lot worse.
Kind of weird how India thinks it’s friends with everybody except China. While Turkey thinks it barely even has friends.
It’s easy to say “the conflict needs to stop, even if it means X country giving control of areas to Y country” when X country isn’t yours.
I wonder if Indians would agree with the statement “the conflict between India and Pakistan needs to stop, even if it means India giving control of Kashmir to Pakistan”.
Where is the option “Russia needs to fuck off and give all of Ukraines land back”?
This poll somehow seems very biased.
Option 1: Russia gets land and war stops.
Option 2: The west needs to back off even though Russia is beeing an ass because west bad m’kay.
Option 3: Fighting continues and more people die.
The fuck is up with this poll.
The kids growing up today are actually the most pro-Western generation in India’s independent history – but before them, many, many Indians remember that the USSR stood by us while you Europeans and the Americans did not (and indeed, actively threatened us) during our attempt to stop a genocide in East Pakistan in 1971. That inspires loyalty, and the USSR’s wider anticolonial message ( in Asia and Africa, at least) resonates with older generations too.
As a whole, Indians tend to think Ukraine is Europe’s war fought by nations that have historically not given a damn about us but now expect us to sacrifice ourselves for them. And instead of understanding this, the reaction from Europeans and media outlets tends to be outrage that the browns are not obediently falling in line – while Russia consistently says all the right things about India and Russia’s historic friendship. This further influences a pro-Russia mood in the Indian public.
You need to fight your public opinion battles better – show Indians why you are a more trustworthy partner than Russia, instead of lecturing us. The US gets it, and we are growing more pro-US as a result – Europeans really don’t.
Turks: „our relationship with the US is complicated and involves both shared values and strategic competition“
Americans: „Turkey like the country Turkey? That’s in the Middle East right?“
UK re. Russia / Ukraine:
*Did I stutter?*
Whats eu9?
I can somehow get behind the public support for Russia in CHINA, given that the leaders always proclaim “limitless friendship”, they share some kind of communist background, see themselves as the anti-thesis to western freedom/democracy and generally there is a total control of media which supports Russia.
But India… why?
Probably would be better to not make the same mistake as we did with China and give them all that technology and favorable conditions for free, while they work to be our next rival.
Is it me or the whole post is kinda bashing India, sowing hated amongst Europe. Kinda looks like a CCP sponsored narrative.
‘50% don’t know’ on how EU9 sees india. This pretty much sums up EU-India relations. Everyone from EU including their leaders are in confused state.
Extremely naive comments in this thread. India will quite simply never abandon russia. If you’ve read on the history between those two nations, you would understand why.
As for the people saying that this sentiment is only amongst the older generation, i doubt that. Most Indians aren’t fond of the west (U.S) in particular. From colonization to our governments support for Pakistan, it’s all muddy.
What a bunch of loaded questions. Why not ask “The war in Ukraine needs to stop.”? Or “Russia needs to stop killing innocent Ukranians that they decided to start killing for some weird psychopathic reason.”?
$125 billion in aid and US is viewed as western agrresor? Am I reading that right?
Based uk
Why do China and India hate each other?
I wouldnt know what to answer either; this is not a decision i could make, it is to be made by the ukrainian people and as long as they want to fight i will support it.
Extremely based, im proud of the results. Didnt expect public to be this educated. Nobody is really an ally, all are necessary partners.
the fact 5% of russians agree that ukraine needs to regain territory feels like really high given the (probable) suppression of free speech.
I would have thought that more Americans viewed India as an ally. I also would think that more people would agree Ukraine needs all it’s territory back. If it’s not all returned we enter a world where more countries invade other countries to get their way.
It’s strange comparing the India to EU9. 30% to 39% believe that Ukraine should fight to regain all lost territory, which is a very small difference.
Yet, 51% of Indians view Russia as allied compared to 54% of the EU9 viewing Russia as the opposite. So despite a general positive opinion of Russia in India, there isn’t as much of a sizable support for their war as you’d expect.
Ofcourse you have the part about giving up territory to end the war, which a stark 54% to 30%, but I think a lot of this would be due to the lack of connection. The West views Ukraine as a part of it, just like the Baltics or Poland. India simply views Ukraine as a small Western-aligned state, so the more apathetic approach makes sense. Afterall, I imagine a lot of people in the West. have similar sentiments to disputes in the Ease
Jives with my assessment of the public sentiment in India.
Indians are very pro-US (especially the younger ones).
Pro-Russia sentiments are inherited from the days of the Soviet Union.
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Very interesting, full article [here](https://ecfr.eu/publication/united-west-divided-from-the-rest-global-public-opinion-one-year-into-russias-war-on-ukraine/) from ECFR.
Yikes India. And here I though they were just whoring themselves out for some cheap fossil fuel, which tbf is a geopolitical classic. This makes them look at lot worse.
Kind of weird how India thinks it’s friends with everybody except China. While Turkey thinks it barely even has friends.
It’s easy to say “the conflict needs to stop, even if it means X country giving control of areas to Y country” when X country isn’t yours.
I wonder if Indians would agree with the statement “the conflict between India and Pakistan needs to stop, even if it means India giving control of Kashmir to Pakistan”.
Where is the option “Russia needs to fuck off and give all of Ukraines land back”?
This poll somehow seems very biased.
Option 1: Russia gets land and war stops.
Option 2: The west needs to back off even though Russia is beeing an ass because west bad m’kay.
Option 3: Fighting continues and more people die.
The fuck is up with this poll.
The kids growing up today are actually the most pro-Western generation in India’s independent history – but before them, many, many Indians remember that the USSR stood by us while you Europeans and the Americans did not (and indeed, actively threatened us) during our attempt to stop a genocide in East Pakistan in 1971. That inspires loyalty, and the USSR’s wider anticolonial message ( in Asia and Africa, at least) resonates with older generations too.
As a whole, Indians tend to think Ukraine is Europe’s war fought by nations that have historically not given a damn about us but now expect us to sacrifice ourselves for them. And instead of understanding this, the reaction from Europeans and media outlets tends to be outrage that the browns are not obediently falling in line – while Russia consistently says all the right things about India and Russia’s historic friendship. This further influences a pro-Russia mood in the Indian public.
You need to fight your public opinion battles better – show Indians why you are a more trustworthy partner than Russia, instead of lecturing us. The US gets it, and we are growing more pro-US as a result – Europeans really don’t.
Turks: „our relationship with the US is complicated and involves both shared values and strategic competition“
Americans: „Turkey like the country Turkey? That’s in the Middle East right?“
UK re. Russia / Ukraine:
*Did I stutter?*
Whats eu9?
I can somehow get behind the public support for Russia in CHINA, given that the leaders always proclaim “limitless friendship”, they share some kind of communist background, see themselves as the anti-thesis to western freedom/democracy and generally there is a total control of media which supports Russia.
But India… why?
Probably would be better to not make the same mistake as we did with China and give them all that technology and favorable conditions for free, while they work to be our next rival.
Is it me or the whole post is kinda bashing India, sowing hated amongst Europe. Kinda looks like a CCP sponsored narrative.
‘50% don’t know’ on how EU9 sees india. This pretty much sums up EU-India relations. Everyone from EU including their leaders are in confused state.
Extremely naive comments in this thread. India will quite simply never abandon russia. If you’ve read on the history between those two nations, you would understand why.
As for the people saying that this sentiment is only amongst the older generation, i doubt that. Most Indians aren’t fond of the west (U.S) in particular. From colonization to our governments support for Pakistan, it’s all muddy.
What a bunch of loaded questions. Why not ask “The war in Ukraine needs to stop.”? Or “Russia needs to stop killing innocent Ukranians that they decided to start killing for some weird psychopathic reason.”?
$125 billion in aid and US is viewed as western agrresor? Am I reading that right?
Based uk
Why do China and India hate each other?
I wouldnt know what to answer either; this is not a decision i could make, it is to be made by the ukrainian people and as long as they want to fight i will support it.
Extremely based, im proud of the results. Didnt expect public to be this educated. Nobody is really an ally, all are necessary partners.
the fact 5% of russians agree that ukraine needs to regain territory feels like really high given the (probable) suppression of free speech.
I would have thought that more Americans viewed India as an ally. I also would think that more people would agree Ukraine needs all it’s territory back. If it’s not all returned we enter a world where more countries invade other countries to get their way.
It’s strange comparing the India to EU9. 30% to 39% believe that Ukraine should fight to regain all lost territory, which is a very small difference.
Yet, 51% of Indians view Russia as allied compared to 54% of the EU9 viewing Russia as the opposite. So despite a general positive opinion of Russia in India, there isn’t as much of a sizable support for their war as you’d expect.
Ofcourse you have the part about giving up territory to end the war, which a stark 54% to 30%, but I think a lot of this would be due to the lack of connection. The West views Ukraine as a part of it, just like the Baltics or Poland. India simply views Ukraine as a small Western-aligned state, so the more apathetic approach makes sense. Afterall, I imagine a lot of people in the West. have similar sentiments to disputes in the Ease
Jives with my assessment of the public sentiment in India.
Indians are very pro-US (especially the younger ones).
Pro-Russia sentiments are inherited from the days of the Soviet Union.