New Delhi: US President Donald Trump’s trade advisor Peter Navaro on Friday renewed his attack on India, accusing New Delhi of using US trade dollars to finance Russia’s war in Ukraine. Jusing Washington’s newly imposed 50 percent of tariffs on Indian imports, Nawaro said that the Indian refiner was working with “silent Russian partners”, earning huge profits by refining Russian oil and selling it in international markets, while “Russia worked hard to fund its war on Ukraine.”In a post on X, Navaro said, “India uses our dollars to buy a concessional Russian crude. It is not just about India’s improper trade – it is about cutting the financial lifeline that India has increased to Putin’s war machine.”According to Navaro, “Prior to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Russian oil made less than 1% of India’s imports. Today, more than 30% – more than 1.5 million barrels in a day. This boom is not motivated by domestic demand – it is not operated by Indian profiteers and carries extra price of blood and deviation in Ukraine.”“India’s large oil lobby has converted the world’s largest democracy into a large -scale refinement hub and oil money laundromet for the Kremlin,” he claimed that India now exports more than 1 million barrels a day to refined petroleum to refined petroleum, importing more than half of Russian crude.Navaro said that the Biden administration “greatly saw another way to this madness, while President Trump was directly facing it. “A 50% tariff – 25% for inappropriate trade and 25% for national security – a direct response. If India, the world’s largest democracy, wants to behave like a strategic partner of America, needs to work like one. The road of peace in Ukraine runs through New Delhi.”The comment follows Donald Trump’s decision earlier this week, which repeats double tariffs on Indian imports, both cite trade imbalances and national security concerns. Navarro told Bloomberg TV that it was “real easy” to receive a fine by stopping the purchase of Russian oil for India, but accused New Delhi of being “arrogant” that it was his sovereign right.“India, you are the biggest democracy in the world, okay? Work like one … a side with democracy … (instead) You are getting in bed with the rulings,” he said, reminiscent of India of its long -standing border dispute with China. “These are not your friends, okay? And Russians. I mean, come on!”Navaro also controversially referred to the Russia-Ukraine struggle as a “war of Modi”, insisting on India’s shopping, financing the aggression of Moscow. When an anchor corrected her, saying that “you mean Putin’s war,” Navaro doubled, repeating him was “War of Modi”.While Navaro praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a “great leader” and as a mature democracy with the intelligent people as India, he said that the oil deals in New Delhi reduced their claims of being a trusted American partner with Moscow.His comments have criticized within American policy circles, with some analysts that Washington has not punished China or the European Union to buy Russian energy. Other people mentioned that the US imports Russian nuclear fuel and precious metals.
