2/ Here’s how the India-Russia oil mathematics works: American consumers buy Indian goods while India keeps out U.S. exports through high tariffs and non-tariff barriers. India uses our dollars to buy discounted Russian crude.

3/ Indian refiners, with their silent Russian partners, refine and flip the black-market oil for big profits on the international market – while Russia pockets hard currency to fund its war on Ukraine.

4/ Before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Russian oil made up less than 1% of India’s imports. Today? Over 30%—more than 1.5 million barrels a day. This surge isn’t driven by domestic demand—it's driven by Indian profiteers and carries an added price of blood and devastation in

5/ India’s Big Oil lobby has turned the largest democracy in the world into a massive refining hub and oil money laundromat for the Kremlin. Indian refiners buy cheap Russian oil, process it, and export fuels to Europe, Africa, and Asia—shielded from sanctions under the pretense

6/ India now exports over 1 million barrels a day in refined petroleum—more than half the volume of Russian crude it imports. The proceeds flow to India’s politically connected energy titans—and directly into Putin’s war chest.

7/ While the United States pays to arm Ukraine, India bankrolls Russia even as it slaps some of the world’s highest tariffs on U.S. goods, which in turn punishes American exporters. We run a $50-billion trade deficit with India—and they’re using our dollars to buy Russian oil.

8/ It doesn’t stop there. India continues to buy Russian weapons—while demanding that U.S. firms transfer sensitive military tech and build plants in India. That’s strategic freeloading.

9/ The Biden admin largely looked the other way at this madness. President Trump is confronting it. A 50% tariff—25% for unfair trade and 25% for national security—is a direct response. If India, the world's largest democracy, wants to be treated like a strategic partner of

@RealPNavarro The US and Europe are still doing billions of dollars’ worth of business with Russia despite years of war https://edition.cnn.com/2025/0...

@RealPNavarro Have you gone nuts? So much Hard work to please your master. Write up much more such rhetoric to get a response from New Delhi.

@RealPNavarro Three years into war, US and Europe keep billions in trade with Russia https://www.reuters.com/world/...

@RealPNavarro 1. Put sanctions on europe (buys russian lng) if you're not a racist & hypocrite 2. Put sanctions on your own self for buying russian Uranium. You are personally funding this war

@RealPNavarro The country that instantly jumped in bed with Pakistani Generals the minute the first shots were fired between India and Pakistan….. now want India to side with “democracies” against “autocracies”. Americans are pure scumbags. Last thing India wants to be is on the side of

@RealPNavarro It’s pure nonsense, but hey, it makes sense when you know that it is coming from a lying, double-crossing, old American fanatic idiot who is generally in bed with our terrorist neighbours.🤡

@RealPNavarro India thought playing both sides would make it a superpower. Instead, it just got smacked with 50% tariffs. Global ‘Vishwaguru’ reduced to bargain-bin exporter.

@RealPNavarro First of all, what a thread, Mr. Navarro. Here is my rebuttal to your thread point by point. 1/ Rb: Yeah, great idea.Jack up tariffs so Americans pay double for the same T-shirt or shrimp at Walmart. You are basically taxing your own people and calling it a win. It sounds less

@RealPNavarro brIcs co-founder and non aligned stance obsolete …. Diplomatically NOT aligned with America for decades

@RealPNavarro Time to retire old man. The American brand is now in the Toilet thanks to you. 😂

@RealPNavarro It’s time to stop funding war! “India now exports over 1 million barrels a day in refined petroleum—more than half the volume of Russian crude it imports. The proceeds flow to India’s politically connected energy titans—and directly into Putin’s war chest.”

@RealPNavarro What a harebrained move. Making BRICS great again.

@RealPNavarro “Like a mouse hitting an elephant” This is what US economist Richard Wolff said. Okay?

@RealPNavarro You are my hero

@RealPNavarro India is the largest democracy on the planet. Not your colony or vassal state. Trump has committed countless mischief since his over-adventurous tweets about Indian-Pakistan ceasefire. He has called us a dead economy. He has hosted Asim Munir (a military leader btw) & talked

@RealPNavarro In 2024, the US imported approximately $3 billion in merchandise from #Russia, including key goods such as fertilizers ($1.1 billion), palladium ($878 million), uranium ($624 million), and aircraft engine parts ($75 million). These imports are often exempted from sanctions due to

@RealPNavarro 1/ Peter Navarro claims "India uses our dollars to buy discounted Russian crude". Wrong. India pays in rupees.

@RealPNavarro @RealPNavarro remains the dumbest voice in U.S. policy circles-desperate, noisy, and irrelevant.

@RealPNavarro Mr Peter - you are a bad fiction writer. Your boss is upset with India because India never gave him credit (and rightfully so) for the India-Pak ceasefire and then Modi upset Trump further by not visiting the US when Munir was there because your boss wanted a photo op, which Modi

@RealPNavarro No ethics ok, but have some sense. 🤪 When EU , Turkey, China buys huge energy from Russia , why the F is India targeted . India was asked to buy from Russia, to keep the world oil prices stable in 2022

@RealPNavarro With such stupid advisers, poor Trump has had no chance of retaining his sanity. The so-called lifeline is being strengthened by your brain-dead actions.

@RealPNavarro Trump tarrif dog is barking .... now 50% tarrif is on !! Next is what ?? Try somethings else ?? Why you are not start a physical war as done with Iran 😄😄 #Peter Navarro =Trump Tarrif Dog 🐕

@RealPNavarro Destination Russia sir...

@RealPNavarro Hypocrisy at peak under Trump Administration, You are just licking Trump feet.

@RealPNavarro

@RealPNavarro India has endured the Bengal Famine of 1943 and countless colonial exploitations that drained its wealth, yet it survived and rebuilt. A tariff war is but a passing storm—India’s economy, culture, and art have withstood far greater trials. We will survive this too, and emerge

@RealPNavarro @Arcsyst1 If that means it's now cost effective to manufacture an item here, so much the better...

@RealPNavarro Pretty clear message ... not a bad way to stop a war ... Money has a way of grabbing attention ...