The conundrum pits Trump and Modi, two nationalist leaders who have often described their friendship in warm terms, increasingly against each other.
Trump earlier this week threatened India with the new tariffs, saying it was helping Russia wage war in Ukraine.
“India is not only buying massive amounts of Russian Oil, they are then, for much of the Oil purchased, selling it on the Open Market for big profits.
They don’t care how many people in Ukraine are being killed by the Russian War Machine,” he wrote on social media.
Here’s what you need to know about why India is reluctant to stop buying Russian oil.
Trump and Modi, too, have previously hailed their friendship, with Trump declaring at a 2019 rally that India had “never had a better friend as President than President Donald Trump.”.
“I don’t care what India does with Russia,” Trump wrote in an irate post on Truth Social last week. »
