This article is an amusing and confused mash-up of various discredited Kremlin talking-points and fails entirely to convince. So many assertions are notably false, such as the notion that in the south & east of Ukraine most people were pro-Russian. I've worked & traveled widely in Ukraine and nobody I've ever spoken to has expressed desire for closer integration, forced or otherwise, with Russia. Conversely, nearly every Russian I've spoken to during my many visits to the country has expressed a desire to be more Western - especially in the political realm. As for the tired old trope that Russians were "incensed" by NATO expansion, the reality is that ordinary Russians didn't care at all. No one there saw NATO as a threat - except for Putin and his clique of ex-KGB goons.

It's important to realize, hwoever, that poor Kumar is merely regurgitating false information promulgated in India, just as it is being promulgated around the world in many countries ruled by despots and would-be despots in order to normalize their own thuggery. Modi in India is turning the country into an overtly racist state in order to shore up his own personal power - not very different from Putin demonizing the West. And so Modi supports false information because he himself relies on the same thing to form public opinion in India - a nation in which there is no longer much in the way of journalistic independence, judicial independence, and (increasingly) economic independence. But that doesn't excuse the almost child-like gullibility evinced in this silly article.