Because India needs oil. A lot of it and for cheap. India is also buying US weapons and phasing out Russian ones.
It’s almost like India is a country with its own interests and doesn’t treat the world as one giant chess match between Russia and the US.
You know. Like Latin America.
The only people framing the geopolitical relationship with the EUas part of this so called chess match is you.
You never did present that evidence I asked for by the way. So we are done here.