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1 posted on 08/27/2025 3:59:41 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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“This brings the total tariffs levied by the United States on its ally to 50%.”

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What the heck are they referring to? India is not our ally.


2 posted on 08/27/2025 4:05:13 AM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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“This brings the total tariffs levied by the United States on its ally to 50%.”

_________

What the heck are they referring to? India is not our ally.


3 posted on 08/27/2025 4:05:18 AM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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Oh they told us the tariffs couldn’t affect India. But we are their largest trade target accounting for half their exports. Let’s see.

As for being an “ally” unfortunately India has a long standing relationship with the USSR / Russia.


6 posted on 08/27/2025 4:11:53 AM PDT by Williams (Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
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Meanwhile, Europe has been violating the sanctions on Russian energy all along...


7 posted on 08/27/2025 4:12:54 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)
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We need to put a tariff on India’s IT services sector, as they have far too deep tentacles into our defense contractors security systems. I know this as I work in a company that has been Space Force contracts for a few aspects of the Golden Dome and many of our IT services are outsourced to India. What are these people thinking?


10 posted on 08/27/2025 4:17:05 AM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: Owen
Your input is very much needed here.


15 posted on 08/27/2025 4:22:34 AM PDT by nathanbedford (Attack, repeat, attack! - Bull Halsey)
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19 posted on 08/27/2025 4:26:02 AM PDT by ANKE69 (Ukraine is the world’s only nation to officially have a neo-Nazi formation in it's armed forces.)
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Just slap a massive fee on all H1bs.


21 posted on 08/27/2025 4:29:30 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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Increase cost of remittances to India and start adding a fee to H1b visas. I don’t care about tariffs I want indian invaders out of my country


24 posted on 08/27/2025 4:36:59 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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Unless they have converted to Christianity, the culture is India is anything for themselves at the cheapest cost. From cutting line to driving to shopping at Costco in Frisco Texas...which is probably 90% people from India........it’s all about getting whatever they can get.....cheap and or even free.

People who work in retail will tell you they can be the rudest and most opportunist shoppers and the ones they hate t deal with most. Always trying to get a deal. Outdated or incorrect coupons, sales that no longer exist, deals, deals deals.

Only a conversion to the Bible based Christianity is where I see exceptions.


25 posted on 08/27/2025 4:38:06 AM PDT by vespa300
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India needs to agree to not supply CNC machines or other stuff for the Russian war effort.

India sending cashews and towels to Russia in exchange for oil won’t result in Russian victory.


27 posted on 08/27/2025 5:03:30 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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“India....should....mandate retrospective security clearances on aircraft purchases, thereby enabling Indian airlines to claim force majeure and potentially cancel or defer large Boeing orders”

https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/opinion/call-trump-s-tariff-bluff-diversify-export-destinations-13356690.html

“Indian negotiators...growing list of Boeing (NYSE:BA) aircraft orders...$67 billion in combined orders from Air India, Akasa Air, and SpiceJet”

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/indias-67-billion-boeing-bet-134449281.html


32 posted on 08/27/2025 5:16:48 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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Oh no. I was gonna buys pair of Tatas ( one for me and one for my wife)


33 posted on 08/27/2025 5:29:19 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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“Leading to job losses and slower economic growth...” for which country?

Does buying discounted Russian oil benefit India so crazy much that they can take hits for doing so in other areas of their economy?


34 posted on 08/27/2025 5:31:57 AM PDT by desertsolitaire (hite sea. My grandfather shouted warning to anyone who would listen that the Titanic was going to st)
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“Leading to job losses and slower economic growth...” for which country?

Does buying discounted Russian oil benefit India so crazy much that they can take hits for doing so in other areas of their economy?


35 posted on 08/27/2025 5:31:58 AM PDT by desertsolitaire (hite sea. My grandfather shouted warning to anyone who would listen that the Titanic was going to st)
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Nice to see that by the third paragraph the writers acknowledged that Donald Trump is President of the US.


38 posted on 08/27/2025 5:39:23 AM PDT by daler
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The democrats and their irrational foreign policy produces the very kind of illogical views and ideas. According to many here you cannot simply be neutral; you must choose a side. You cannot be non-aligned. You cannot have relations with everyone.

This is game Trump plays with diminishing returns.

India had spent the last fifty years trying to gain favor with the west, and especially the US. After the shook off the British Empire, of course they branded by the British globalists as enemies of the west.

Modi has only been in office a short time, about the amount of time as Trump; Trump has destroyed all the trust and goodwill garnered in India over the past 50 years.

Modi has ended the border wars with China and trade is breaking out on both sides of the Sino-Indian border; the same is happening on the Sino-Russo border where trade is creating boom towns.

Modi, Xi and Putin are spending 3-4 days together. This is to hammer out the fledgeling Defense-Treaty and Military Pack between the three nations.

India will take the one chair of leading Brics for one year, after Brazil. India is idealy positioned to lead the Global South and non-aligned states to joining Brics.

Obama, Trump, Biden, and now Trump have ensured the case for Brics remains strong.

Trump was working agianst Brics from Day One in office with his Tariffs; Trump was doing the entire Tariff Wars to bring down Brics.

Brics, unlike the EU or G7, do not use or endorse Sanctions. What Trump is doing is forcing memebers of Brics, and applicant nations, to form more than just an economic alliance. Trump is leading the US quest to re-order the world/maintain US leadership of the world thru coups, conflicts, sanctions and tariffs.

Meanwhile, Poland’s new leader has moved to strip Ukrainians of welfare, and he is preparing the Polish military to invade Western Ukraine to reclaim lands lost a the end of WWII; this will be where the Ukrainians are sent initially before being forced off the Polish dole into Ukriane itself.

Poland’s desire to reclaim lost land will set off German demands to return the land it lost to Poland.

Hungry may eventually turn agianst Ukriane, and is probably going to economically re-align with Russia. Trump’s demands that you choose alligances to the US over friendship or relations with other states will result in a self-imposed Isolation of the US as we finandcially withdraw from everywhere to just where we control.

India is one angry nation towwards Trump and the USG. The people are not happy with the US/Trump. The US has tried to destabilize Modi and Trump’s moves to sanction/tariff India is one of those moves.


51 posted on 08/27/2025 6:54:21 AM PDT by Jumper
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Peace Through Strength.


54 posted on 08/27/2025 7:12:17 AM PDT by lodi90
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The key point: The U.S. has for now exempted some sectors such as pharmaceuticals and electronic goods from additional tariffs, bringing some relief for India as its exposure in these sectors is significant.

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The US receives approximately 30-40% of India's total pharmaceutical exports, with figures citing around 31.35% to 40% in recent reports from April to August 2025. This makes the US the largest export market for Indian-manufactured pharmaceuticals, primarily supplying the US with generic drug products.

67 posted on 08/27/2025 9:07:52 AM PDT by Kazan
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Indian officials have cautioned that the new duties could render shipments to the US commercially unviable, leading to job losses and a slowdown in economic growth.

Fine

73 posted on 08/27/2025 10:43:04 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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