New Delhi, June 12 -- India's foreign minister came to a Finnish forum on a world in transition and told his European hosts, to their faces, that their own weapons end up being used against his country. "No European country has been attacked with Indian weapons," Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said on Thursday. "I wish I could say the same for Europe's weapons vis-a-vis India."

the West is asking India to bear the cost of a war on Russia that Europe has not been willing to bear itself.

The setting was the 14th edition of the talks, themed "A World in Transition," where Jaishankar shared a discussion on the new geopolitical competition with Finland's foreign minister, Elina Valtonen, and the United Arab Emirates' assistant foreign minister, Lan...