Washington: Former Pentagon official Michael Rubin has credited US President Donald Trump for deepening the strategic partnership between India and Russia, asserting that the 79-year-old American leader “deserves a Nobel Prize” for fostering their united front. His remark followed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s warmly received state visit to India this week — his first in four years — where Prime Minister Narendra Modi hosted him with full ceremonial honours at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Rubin, now a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, told that from Moscow’s viewpoint, the visit marked an “extremely positive” turn, as Putin was accorded respect “he can hardly get anywhere else in the world.”
