Posted on 08/01/2025 4:05:05 PM PDT by libh8er
US President Donald Trump on Saturday said that he had heard that India might no longer buy oil from Russia, though he acknowledged he was not certain about the claim.
"I understand that India is no longer going to be buying oil from Russia. That's what I heard, I don't know if that's right or not. That is a good step. We will see what happens," Trump told ANI.
Trump's remarks come days after his tirade against India for buying Russian oil and the White House's decision to levy 25 per cent tariffs on all exports to America and an unspecified additional “penalty” for purchasing Russian energy.
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I hope this is true.
Yes, India has discovered an enormous oil field up its posterior.
How about India stop calling me on the phone every day.
“Yes, India has discovered an enormous oil field up its posterior.”
Hard to imagine the people of India being happy with their government for shutting down their economy on orders of Trump...so we’ll see!
The U.S. would have enough oil to supply the whole world if Democrats didn’t keep shutting us down.
They tried to defame Nixon as a racist because on tape with Henry Kissinger, he observed that in India and Pakistan they lie so much, it was like a “cloud” you couldn’t see through.
Boy you really are the official toady for Russia and every country but the United States.
Go Trump.
“Boy you really are the official toady for Russia and every country but the United States.”
Thanks!
I remember thinking that if Trump got us into a World War, as the Democrats kept claiming he would, that at least it would be a war we couldn’t avoid.
The LAST THING that I thought was that Trump would follow the Democrats and the Neocons into that World War.
You don’t expect things because you don’t know what you’re talking about.
“You don’t expect things because you don’t know what you’re talking about.”
Does anyone REALLY know what time it is? Now think hard.
The indian cyber police should be dealing with it but apparently there is much corruption
If I bother answering at all I tell them I am looking for my SS card, or turning on my TV, or booting my computer while putting them on hold. This wastes their time while I go back to work. Some of these bakri chods (men who prefer goats) keep calling back again and again.
India can go back to buying their oil from the Middle East again, and the Saudis can make a fortune on Russia’s former market share.
Let’s see if OPEC+ raises the production quota for September at Sunday’s Ministerial Meeting (over Russian objections) like they have every month since President Trump visited the region, and made the Grand Deal with them. It sure looks like the fix was in back then, and conditions are set to drop the hammer now.
Bone-Crushing Sanctions are the chance of a lifetime for the Saudis, and a few others, to take Russia’s oil market share away from them for the long term. Long range missiles provided to Ukraine can destroy the key nodes of Russia’s oil infrastructure, and Winter freezing (starting next month in Northern Siberian oil fields) can do the rest - just like after the fall of the Soviet Union.
Vlad the Doom of Russia, is killing the geese that laid the golden eggs - first the natural gas industry, and now the oil industry.
That will set conditions for a more stable peace - a Russia too poor to significantly re-arm.
“India can go back to buying their oil from the Middle East again, and the Saudis can make a fortune on Russia’s former market share.”
...and so will US oil workers...when the spot price for crude DOUBLES. If Trump thinks his base will like that, then he should have campaigned on it.
Dear Devochki:
There will be no Chinese-made ‘Woke’ dolls on our shelves because of Trump.
Dear Zhinchshiny:
There will be no Paris fashions on the racks because of Trump.
Tvoi magazine.
“when the spot price for crude DOUBLES”
President Trump did not just fall off the turnip truck. He knows how markets work, and how important the oil price is.
That is why his first diplomatic trip abroad was to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE. Spare production capacity to buffer the market from significant price shock is already lined up. There have been months of warning and lead time to ramp up production, and line up alternate suppliers.
As an example, ExxonMobile and Chevron have sped up the schedule of the fourth offshore field in Guyana (Yellowtail), so that 250,000 bpd of new production starts (coincidentally) next week. Guyana’s ethnically Indian Minister of Natural Resources, Vickram Bharrat, has been in talks with his potential new Indian customers for months already.
And so on, around the globe - Brazil, Nigeria, Gulf of America, etc.. The oil majors have been preparing, and the Energy Ministers have been preparing. President Trump has been signaling the possibility of choking off Russian oil exports, since before his inauguration.
When President Trump sped up his deadline to 8 August for Bone-Crushing Sanctions on Russian oil exports, the market price rose 3-4%, and has since settled back down. Insiders know the deal, and it is not a surprise to any big player.
“when the spot price for crude DOUBLES”
President Trump did not just fall off the turnip truck. He knows how markets work, and how important the oil price is.
That is why his first diplomatic trip abroad was to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE. Spare production capacity to buffer the market from significant price shock is already lined up. There have been months of warning and lead time to ramp up production, and line up alternate suppliers.
As an example, ExxonMobile and Chevron have sped up the schedule of the fourth offshore field in Guyana (Yellowtail), so that 250,000 bpd of new production starts (coincidentally) next week. Guyana’s ethnically Indian Minister of Natural Resources, Vickram Bharrat, has been in talks with his potential new Indian customers for months already.
And so on, around the globe - Brazil, Nigeria, Gulf of America, etc.. The oil majors have been preparing, and the Energy Ministers have been preparing. President Trump has been signaling the possibility of choking off Russian oil exports, since before his inauguration.
When President Trump sped up his deadline to 8 August for Bone-Crushing Sanctions on Russian oil exports, the market price rose 3-4%, and has since settled back down. Insiders know the deal, and it is not a surprise to any big player.
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