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Everyone gets to pick which team he wants to play for. I thought the point was to try to get people to choose to play for our team and not "party with Putin"? That's why you favored secondary sanctions on India, right? To try to change their choice on whether to buy oil from Russia?

The Marine Corps has a particularly apt saying for scenarios like this: No better friend. No worse enemy.

India knows damn well they'll taking advantage of the situation. They're not children. They think their strategic calculus says that it's great for them to buy cheapo Russian oil, refine it and sell the gas to Europe at great profit. So what incentives can we put to them that makes them...rethink...that strategic calculus? Incentives can be positive or negative.

Sometimes you need both.

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