The Diplomat:
The United States and India continue to discuss New Delhi’s intended procurement of five regiments of Russian-made S-400 Triumf air defense systems (NATO reporting name: SA-21 Growler) and Washington’s threat to impose economic sanctions on India should it proceed with the purchase of cutting-edge Russian military hardware.
So far, they have not reached an agreement, according to a senior U.S. official. “We continue to have conversations with the Indian leadership on ways that we are working to hold Russia accountable for its behavior,” Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Alice Well said during a conference call with reporters on September 10.
As a consequence for what the U.S. government considers a state-sponsored influence operation to manipulate and detrimentally influence the 2016 presidential elections in the United States, the U.S. Congress passed the so-called Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA), which came into effect in January 2018…
