As always, the old is hard to be rid of to allow the new to prevail
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
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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....
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.
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Russo-India dirka dirka alliance stronk like Bombay curry!
Yap, Yap, Yap - then comply.
No mention that India was feasting on the blood of innocents to get their discount.
Tasty, yummy blood money.
As always, the old is hard to be rid of to allow the new to prevail
I fondly remember the Mahindra ads during Rush :.(
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...
Just ban h1b / student visas and see how fast China and India change their tune
India can simply choose to trade with Russia and China or the West. It's up to them.
India’s been charging a pretty flat 25% for our goods - Trump is just matching them...
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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?
Americans care and most don’t want h1b visa people here
If Modi was concerned about H1B/OPT workers, his ministers would be moving heaven & earth for them to return.
Modi does care about their remittances.
The usual Putinista hot air from you......
Trump got Saudi Arabia to send its oil to India at the same price Russia is. So if India wants to be stupid, still buy Russian oil, this is on them.
Trump and MBS of Saudi Arabia get along great. India better be careful or Trump will cut off all your HB1 computer code jockey immigrants.
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