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Commentary: How the US Weaponised Pakistan Against India
Channel News Asia ^ | 02 Aug 2025 | Mihir Sharma

Posted on 08/04/2025 1:13:20 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Many in New Delhi welcomed President Donald Trump’s return to power, expecting him to take the Indo-US relationship to new heights.

They must wonder where it all went wrong, given that Trump launched an unprecedented broadside against India this week – threatening tariffs of 25 per cent and warning that a surcharge would be added unless India stops buying Russian oil and weapons. He even expressed dissatisfaction with the nation’s participation in the “anti-US” BRICS grouping.

Normally, Prime Minister Narendra Modi might just overlook a few social media posts. It may be humiliating to wind up with higher tariff rates than India’s peers after wooing Trump, but that can be shrugged off as well. Yet the president didn’t stop at trade. He twisted the knife by announcing a tariff deal with Pakistan on the very same day – and added that US companies would help India’s troubled neighbour extract oil from recently discovered reserves, and that “maybe they’ll be selling oil to India one day.”

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


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia
KEYWORDS: ccp; china; howsthefreepathon; india; itistolaugh; kashmir; mihirsharma; multiplenicks; pakistan; randpaulsucks; russiantrollfarm; trump

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1 posted on 08/04/2025 1:13:20 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

So since they are our friends they should be able to launder oil for our enemy. OK.


2 posted on 08/04/2025 1:16:45 PM PDT by edwinland
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