India's stance on Ukraine, G20 spending, and Western influence: Insights from top officials and diplomats.

India, the world's second-largest country and sixth-largest economy, has maintained a posture of "strategic ambivalence" on Russia's invasion of Ukraine, resisting a U.S. push to directly oppose Moscow while calling for "peace" and cooperation on what "common ground" there is. India's size and power make it the most influential nation to remain neutral, a year into the war. While Western leaders have been disappointed in India's reluctance to condemn Russian aggression, they know India's reliance on Russian energy and weapons, paired with past problems with the U.S., present the country with a tempting option for neutrality.