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The F-35 “poison pill”, source-code sovereignty and a resurgent Moscow have combined to shove Washington’s grand trade pitch into the deep freeze – just as Putin lands in Delhi with fifth‑gen fighters, cheap oil and shopping lists in hand.
https://x.com/adityajakki/status/199645 ... 51448?s=20 ---> People reading too literally into that Businessworld piece on why India-US trade talks hit the roadblock. Think this way - India could have asked for unrealistic source codes, ToT, etc of F-35 not because it expected to get it. But because it matched the US with its own impossible terms matching impossible ask of the Trump admin to buy everything under the sun from the US. It was a message to Trump.