Posted on 08/21/2025 7:35:10 AM PDT by McGruff
For more than two decades, Washington and New Delhi built a strategic partnership that was hailed as one of the great success stories of post–Cold War diplomacy. Today, that relationship is facing its most serious test in years — and India is signaling it has other options.
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Since President Trump imposed sweeping tariffs on Indian imports, New Delhi has turned visibly eastward. India’s national security adviser traveled to Moscow in recent weeks, its foreign minister is visiting this week and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi just concluded talks in Delhi. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is preparing for his first trip to China in more than seven years, while Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to host him in Moscow before the end of the year.
The pivot underscores how tariffs meant to punish India for its continued purchases of Russian oil may instead be pushing New Delhi closer to America’s rivals.
Trump slapped a 25% tariff on Indian imports earlier this year, citing India’s willingness to keep buying Russian crude. On August 27, that tariff is set to double to 50%.
Indian public opinion has bristled at what many see as U.S. interference in sovereign decision-making.
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I guess this happened just today.
🇷🇺🇮🇳 President Vladimir Putin received Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar today at the Kremlin.
Send all the Indians and Sikhs home and they can go to Russia and China
The American market is the biggest prize under the market tree.
Well, bye India!! Next, says America.
China and India have border issues. India is not going to get anything much from China.
Good, let’s push the Indians H1B’s closer to them too by deporting them.
We’ll just have to see how all this unfolds over time, dealing with Russia, India, and China is hard business and we won’t know what the negotiations resulted in, until the dust settles.
“The American market is the biggest prize under the market tree.”
Americans are about 6% of the world’s population.
Visit LA or NY to see what these ‘Americans’ look like.
Not buying it.
This is a negotiating tactic.
Unless Trump cancels all H1Bs from that country, his India gambit will have zero impact on them.
“Good, let’s push the Indians H1B’s closer to them too by deporting them.”
Silicon Valley software - developed by H-1B Asian Indians
“Unless Trump cancels all H1Bs from that country, his India gambit will have zero impact on them.”
It’s not practical to cancel them, but new issues could be halted.
Great. So let them see how that belt & road works out for them. LMAO!
India is about to #FAFO
Kool - let’s sacrifice more money, gear and strategic alliances for the Ukraine $**thole war - instigated by corrupt-o-crats and deep state chickenhawks.
Good thing we’re ending this on “day one,” instead of getting even more entangled.
Oh wait...
This is a temporary tariff aimed at forcing Putin to negotiate on ending the war in Ukraine. Can people not see this?
Charge a fee of 50k for every h1b visa and start eliminating student visas
I recall that India still has a border war with China...
End h-11b colonization! Kill it!
Spoken like traitor and an enemy of the people.
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