Posted on 08/04/2025 8:19:34 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
India is not only buying massive amounts of Russian Oil, they are then, for much of the Oil purchased, selling it on the Open Market for big profits. They don’t care how many people in Ukraine are being killed by the Russian War Machine. Because of this, I will be substantially raising the Tariff paid by India to the USA. Thank you for your attention to this matter!!! President DJT
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This isn’t new and it isn’t a revelation. Russia has been using its ghost fleet of hundreds of ships to transport oil around the world.
Cut back substantially on h1b and student visas from India
Add a 25% tax on remittance to India
That should help
One of the big benefits of Trump’s revolutionary tariff regimen by the world’s largest comsumer nation is that, in addition to balancing the international trade alignment and making trade fairer, he now has the extra bullet of squeezing nations like India and enemy China who are dependent on our markets to cooperate politically with our internationL aims.We don’t have to send out the gunboats as a response and it doesn’t cost us a dime to squeeze them with the economic threat
India selling on the open market means they are getting market rates, or less. If India is making a profit doing this it means they are buying Russian oil at discount.
Net: Russia is not making as much oil money for their war thanks to Trump’s actions.
Yes, it has been a huge windfall for the oil traders in India.
They are buying the oil at a huge discount to the Brent Sea Crude Spot price.
The most profitable thing to do is turn it into Diesel and sell that to Europe most likely.
They can also transload the oil into another tanker and change the BOL of its origin. They could “blend” the oil with other petroleum. Therefore, again trying to get around sanctions.
The other more risky thing is just change the BOL and state that they oil originated somewhere other than Russia.
I suspect that a combination of all these things are happening with this Russian oil. That is because there is a huge amount of profit to be made by doing this. It is similar to being a drug trafficker. High risk to reward ratio.
Of Course, India will also use this for their own domestic usage. All the other things are methods to sell it to some other buyer and get around the sanctions/duty/tariffs/illegal trade practices.
No better person to do this on behalf of the USA than President Trump. It’s long overdue.
It’s a disgrace what they are doing profiting off the deaths of innocents (Ukrainians + Russians). Make them pay. Raise tariffs to 1000 % and beyond. Stop issuing visas. Whatever it takes.
Deport the H1B invaders back to Calcutta.
“War War War how do you like it, how do you like it”
This post very provocative but India is on the poop list right now Pakistan borders Iran on the east a valuable tool for regime change in Iran.
The military boss of Pakistan who is the real boss of that country had lunch with Trump at the WH in June.
“Russian War Machine” too many golf dates with Lindsey Graham IMHO.
The impact of this will be exactly jack sh!t.
Durka durka. Modi stronk like Putin!
Total Indian sales to the US is $84billion.
That’s hardly a dependency.
Sadly I think that was part of the original plan, keep Russian oil on the market to keep amount up, bit with that said revenue and profit are two different things.
I often hear about revenue from oil sold, but I doubt the profits are all that much with discounts, shipping costs…
Perhaps like Iran we don’t want a 90s collapse of Russian oil infrastructure. They have to pump or their fields and pipelines esp in the east will be severely damaged and probably take a decade to get fixed like last time
Russia is selling at a deep discount because no one else is buying their oil. But it’s still better than selling no oil at all as long as money flows in to finance their killing machine. India is happy that they get to buy cheap oil, refine and resell for a profit. Neither Putin, nor Modi care about the 1000s dying every week as a result of the racket they are running.
Buying Russian oil is in India's best interest.
Trump should be pursuing a trade policy with India solely based on what is in OUR best interests and leave Russia out of the equation.
Agree. India pursuing world dominance via U.S. trade imbalances on oil, pharmaceuticals, oil, and H1-b workers.
Americans trained the workers and gave them the technology.
The only "innocents" fighting for Ukraine are the ones forced to the frontlines against their will.
Ukraine is tyrannical, neo-Nazi hellhole that is run by the leaders as corrupt as any in the world. Those leaders took the actions that resulted in the present war and solely responsible for the deaths that occurred.
Yes. Can you figure that out?
If you can, let us know.
This whole war is one big commercial enterprise run by Graham and his MIC scum buddies.
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