About the author: Michael Rubin is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and director of policy analysis at the Middle East Forum. It was all pomp and circumstance when Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in India. Putin made his first state visit to India 25 years ago, shortly after assuming power in Moscow, and has visited ten times since, although this is his first since the 2022 all-out invasion of Ukraine. “India is not neutral, India is on the side of peace,” Prime Mi