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> India themselves need imported fuel.
I forgot about that meself. India's economy is growing and they need more energy. More than dried cow poo can cover.
> I think in this situation the Indians would choose their fuel imports over their trade relationship with the US. Which then just pushes India into the arms of Russia
Yeah, that sounds likely to me.
Also I wrote BRICS with a K...

> we have seen what a militarized Europe in need of external resources is capable of before.
Libya could solve a lot of problems. It's full of gas and oil, it's close. But it's full of civil war too.