While it remains unclear exactly what form their cooperation will take, such as whether it’ll involve a pipeline or just tankers, the intent is nevertheless to extend a helping hand to that South Asian state. Its post-modern coup authorities, however, have been reluctant about offending their American patrons by doing anything that could even remotely be spun as supposedly violating its unilateral sanctions against either of those two countries.
Seems Putin was right, that resources would replace industrial plant as key in a post-modern world.