Posted on 07/31/2025 11:56:42 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Thursday that India's purchases of Russian oil are helping to sustain Moscow's war efforts in Ukraine and it is "most certainly a point of irritation" in New Delhi’s relationship with Washington, although not the only point of irritation.
In an interview with Fox Radio, Rubio claimed that the US President is frustrated with the fact that India continues to buy oil from Russia despite having so many other oil vendors available and helping to fund Russia's war effort against Ukraine.
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One of the biggest points of contradiction that has stopped India and the US from signing a trade deal is India's firm resistance to opening up its agriculture and dairy sectors, while the US is pushing for greater access to India’s agricultural market, particularly for GM crops, dairy, and products like corn, soybeans, apples, almonds, and ethanol. They have been insisting on tariff reductions in these sensitive sectors.
New Delhi argues that allowing cheaper, subsidised US farm goods into the country would harm the income of millions of small farmers.
India has told the US that reducing tariffs on dairy, rice, wheat, and genetically modified (GM) crops like corn and soybeans is not possible right now. According to officials, such a step could hurt over 700 million rural people, including around 80 million small dairy farmers.
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BRICS isn’t worth a warm bucket of piss. All of those countries have big economic problems.
Comes from the fact that Trump was very popular in India and many Indians hoped he would win against Kamala Harris who had partial Indian ancestry. The anger is now palpable. Whatever happens going forward, Trump has lost India. Quite possibly, the US-India relationship has been damaged badly.
They don’t produce much of their own
Oil is about ease of transport insofar as who u get it from
A bit more about India. That 1.5 billion population means the right fringe of their IQ bell curve has enormous numbers of people.
The US H1B program is about 80% Indian and most of the rest Chinese. The high IQ types. They get an H1B visa and that does not make them loyal Americans.
In fact, this may be the next step in Trump’s anti India sequence — sending them home.
That would pretty much end US tech.
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