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Opinion | Trump Tariffs: The West Botched Up Russia ... And Now Wants India To Foot The Bill
NDTV ^ | July 30, 2025 | Kanwal Sibal

Posted on 07/31/2025 5:40:25 AM PDT by McGruff

The West has grudgingly recognised its inability to persuade India not to buy Russian oil. However, anti-Russian lobbies continue to apply pressure on New Delhi, seeing that their goal of imposing a strategic defeat on Russia has proved illusory.

Both the US and the EU seek to offload onto our backs some of their continuing failures in dealing with Russia. They have imposed a series of draconian sanctions on Russia for intervening militarily in Ukraine, but these have not caused the economic collapse of the country as they thought it would. Not just that, Trump himself, encouraged by his bludgeoning of the EU and Japan on the tariffs issues, has also rejected the interim agreement negotiated by the US and Indian sides and is determined to play hardball with India. He has announced a 25% tariff on India and a 'penalty' over that for dealing with Russia.

The objective of the US and the EU has been to deprive Russia of financial resources to continue its military operations in Ukraine

(Excerpt) Read more at ndtv.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: brics; india; kanwalsibal; kneepaddersforputin; putinswhores; russiantrollfarm; zeeperfags

1 posted on 07/31/2025 5:40:25 AM PDT by McGruff
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To: McGruff

Someone didn’t get the message:
Exclusive-Indian state refiners pause Russian oil purchases, sources say
7/31/2025, 5:04:31 AM · by marcusmaximus · 2 replies
Reuters Yahoo Finance ^ | 7/31/2025 | Nidhi Verma
Indian state refiners have stopped buying Russian oil in the past week as discounts narrowed this month and U.S. President Donald Trump warned against purchasing oil from Moscow, industry sources said. India, the world’s third-largest oil importer, is the biggest buyer of seaborne Russian crude....


2 posted on 07/31/2025 5:46:08 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: McGruff

Nope

India chose to side with Putin. Trump is removing the economic advantage to India for that choice.

Trump, correctly, is fixed the errors Biden created by leaving these loopholes open.

I


3 posted on 07/31/2025 5:46:37 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
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To: McGruff

Russo-India dirka dirka alliance stronk like Bombay curry!


4 posted on 07/31/2025 5:47:29 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: McGruff

Yap, Yap, Yap - then comply.

No mention that India was feasting on the blood of innocents to get their discount.

Tasty, yummy blood money.


5 posted on 07/31/2025 5:51:40 AM PDT by BeauBo
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To: MNJohnnie
Mahindra pays the price.

As always, the old is hard to be rid of to allow the new to prevail

6 posted on 07/31/2025 5:53:47 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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To: McGruff

TDS Alert!!


7 posted on 07/31/2025 5:54:29 AM PDT by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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To: bert

I fondly remember the Mahindra ads during Rush :.(


8 posted on 07/31/2025 5:57:11 AM PDT by miliantnutcase
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To: McGruff

I will go to my grave totally impressed with the left’s ability to twist things. If the right applied 10% of that ability there would be no stopping us...


9 posted on 07/31/2025 6:00:04 AM PDT by sit-rep (START DEMANDING INDICTMENTS NOW!!!!!)
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To: All

Just ban h1b / student visas and see how fast China and India change their tune


10 posted on 07/31/2025 6:12:40 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: McGruff
India is pursuing it's interest in buying discounted Russian oil; the US is pursuing it's interests in trying to shut down Russia's income stream.

India can simply choose to trade with Russia and China or the West. It's up to them.

11 posted on 07/31/2025 6:54:36 AM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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India’s been charging a pretty flat 25% for our goods - Trump is just matching them...


12 posted on 07/31/2025 7:21:34 AM PDT by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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To: McGruff

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13 posted on 07/31/2025 8:30:06 AM PDT by sauropod (Make sure Satan has to climb over a lot of Scripture to get to you. John MacArthur Ne supra crepidam)
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To: escapefromboston
Just ban h1b / student visas and see how fast China and India change their tune

There are 100000 H1Bs . there are 400 million marginal farmers, another 200 million vegetarians who don't want their dairy coming from Cows being fed offal.

Now how much do you think the ordinary citizen(voter) and thus the politicians, cares for these 100,000 H1Bs?

14 posted on 08/01/2025 11:00:04 AM PDT by IndianChief
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Americans care and most don’t want h1b visa people here


15 posted on 08/01/2025 11:28:36 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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