While the students in question technically might not be benefiting from the collusion between Modi and Putin (cheap oil) they most certainly have to realize that their government does: furthermore, that their government cares more about cheap oil than the plight of it's future medical doctors:<p><i>Around 18,000 students were evacuated from Ukraine in 2022 in the weeks after Russia's invasion. They hoped to be allowed to resume studies in Indian institutions or other foreign universities, but that was not to be. Since January 2023, around 3,400 students have gone back to Ukraine to complete their degrees despite the risks.</i><p>This says everything we think and know about Indian Caste Society as outsiders, but no one dares to speak about for fear of the backlash and ultimately being called a racist. But there it is, an underclass gets sent to a war zone to complete it's medical degrees while simultaneously funding the regime that indiscriminately bombs civilian targets for the benefit of it's local populace/economy who those physicians are supposed to service.<p>This is why I think that it's so taboo to think that the notion that systemic racism people keep going on about in tech (particularly in SV) is mainly done from an insular position, and is tolerated depending on what part of the World you are from, or in this case caste. I doubt a Brahma would be expected to leave their country to attend medical school, especially when that nation is being bombed by an aggressor nation whose economy is being propped up by these oil deals despite Western sanctions (that themselves are poorly enforced).<p>I'm not sure what to think about the situation, and Ukrainian sentiment during War is vastly different than it was prior to invasion: in Lviv as a Westerner I noted right away that their were lots of Egyptian and Indian populations co-existing with their Slavic counterparts and things got along somehow. Things were far from perfect, but it seemed like most cosmopolitan cities where I've lived, or grew up in where <i>people were just people.</i>