Did India screw up big time in choosing sides in the Ukraine situation?

Initially I thought the Indian government position was measured and reasonable but increasingly think it has turned out to be a disaster. The reasons I hear from fellow Indians are: - Russia was a long time friend of India. This is not true. The Soviet Union was. While Russia is the legitimate successor state, post Russia hasn’t done anything “friendly”. In fact they had trade deals and sold weapons at market rate or even a premium. -Russians have so much derision towards the countries they sell arms to that they even nick named export variants as Monkey Models. - Russians weapons (including T 90s) have proven woefully inadequate in the battlefield against western supplied arms. - US support for Pakistan during the Cold War. But most Indians conveniently ignore that it was India that first rejected American offers of friendship (Eisenhower even offered nuclear tech to India in the 1950s and Nehru rejected it. Nehru was a socialist and chose Soviet Union over America and the US then had no choice but to choose Pakistan to stop communism. - it is undeniable that countries that chose Soviet Union and communism have been absolutely destroyed and are in shambles while most American allies have prospered (SK, Saudi, Germany, Japan, ASEAN nations) - USA is the biggest trade partner and export market for India. Through the current stance (of neutrality, which America considers support for Russia), India has antagonized a lot of American leaders, and quite a few western population among common people. - Russia’s contribution to India’s trade after 1990 is minimal at best, but EU plus USA have massively contributed to the current $500 billion forex reserves. Russia’s contribution there is minimal. -Russian military has all but collapsed. So they will definitely be of no help to India in the future. They can’t help themselves at the moment and are literally asking North Korea and Iran for arms. -Russian weapons industry has come to a stand still and without sanctions being lifted they cannot export again. This is a serious issue that India cannot solve right away. While I strongly believe the “atmanirbhar” campaign will eventually help India, in the short term we absolutely need the support of the west. This is a lost opportunity to consolidate that. - Other Russian supporters in this battle are North Korea, Iran, and China. India is out of character aligning with these nations. (Again Distinguishing here between Iranian, Chinese people from their governments). - while it if ok for common people to not know about upcoming Russian losses or predict the direction of the war, I think the inability of the Indian foreign policy establishment to read all this earlier in the war is showing through as rank incompetence. - while Modi’s heart is in the right place (he did say this is not the time for war after all, straight to Putin’s face), I think he is being let down by the bureaucracy and the external affairs ministry). What India gained: - some cheap oil (that too temporarily) What India lost: - massive opportunity to extract weapons related concessions from the west. - favorable trade deals using support for war as leverage. - Ill will of our highest trading partners (on whom million of India IT, textile, leather and other sector people depend on for jobs) What do you think? I think this being penny wise and pound foolish TC 430k Yoe 14 Disclosure: I am an Indian I generally lean towards BJPs ideologies and have mostly voted for them But am not a “hardcore” supporter of any party. I have a generally favorable view the Modi government but feel they could do better.