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Trump Sternly Warns Russia and India
For better or worse, Trump’s diplomatic style is to bully and berate anybody who isn’t doing exactly what he wants. I suppose that might work on weaker countries with no leverage, but larger countries like India and Russia?
It doesn’t seem to be working out all that well.
Trump wants Russian oil cut out from the global market, and he’s leaning on India to get his way:
What’s weird about that moral flex about people in Ukraine being killed by the Russian War machine, is that the US is currently participating in legally defined war crimes in Gaza by starving a displaced civilian population, which is to say nothing of the obvious moral abominations involved.
You can be sure that slip-o-the-conscience isn’t being missed by the rest of the world.
India wasted no time in saying, “Go pound sand.”
Indian government has clarified today that India has NOT stopped buying Russian oil.Anyways, if India (and China) stopped buying oil from Russia, the global price of oil will be like $400 a barrel.Trump has a 🤡 understanding of basic economics. pic.twitter.com/0yPES8fOBA
— S.L. Kanthan (@Kanthan2030) August 2, 2025
To which Trump then somewhat petulantly threw in the towel on both Russia and India:
Weirdly, the EU is also funding
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