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Regardless of how this war ends, Russia\u2019s aggression in 2022 will almost certainly have a similar effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India had a disastrous year in 1991. At that time, half of its oil came from Iraq and Kuwait, and almost 200,000 Indians worked in those two countries. Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein\u2019s actions put both in peril. The resulting spike in oil prices plunged India into a balance-of-payments crisis. New Delhi was forced to hock its gold reserves to borrow hard currency and, at the same time, attempt a difficult evacuation of Indian citizens. India then watched as Iraq\u2019s Soviet-supplied and -trained army was destroyed in six weeks by a US-led coalition. 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