expecting US and West to come to our direct defence,as they might do for Israel is I would say not being pratical. In fact US and West would always want the countries who can pose challenge to them in long run to fight with each other so they can maintain their domination. All this talk by west of sharing common values, democracy.. etc with India is hogwash. World is not run on values but on intrests as can be seen by US and west supporting dictators and even terrorists as long as it serves their intrest. Also let us not forget without US support we would not have Pakistan with nuclear weapons.. in fact we would not have Pakistan if it was not for US. Same is in Nepal.. maoists there have direct support of US.Further once we are dependent on US after this deal how shall we ensure thay would not extract their pound of flesh? We have already voted against Iran at IAEA after we were threatened by some US congressmen. About bigger encirclement, Australia has already fallen in place after being warned by China and have started distancing from India.
