President Joe Biden told Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi that buying more oil from Russia was not in India's interest and could hamper the U.S. response to the war in Ukraine, U.S. officials said.
Funny because right up to the age of colonialism, aliens visiting earth would probably spend their time with the most "civilized" places - India, China, Tenochtitlan, etc. Western Europe was an irrelevant, "underdeveloped" backwater. There's some story about some of the initial contact between W. Europe and India, I think around the middle of the 15th century. The Europeans brought like shitty linens and they thought they could trade them for like gems and stuff, and the Indians just laughed at them.
Implying that the West ever saw India as part of the civilized world...
Funny because right up to the age of colonialism, aliens visiting earth would probably spend their time with the most "civilized" places - India, China, Tenochtitlan, etc. Western Europe was an irrelevant, "underdeveloped" backwater. There's some story about some of the initial contact between W. Europe and India, I think around the middle of the 15th century. The Europeans brought like shitty linens and they thought they could trade them for like gems and stuff, and the Indians just laughed at them.