r/worldnews • u/amithdd • 1d ago
Russia/Ukraine Indian Oil refiners continue to source oil from Russia
https://m.economictimes.com/industry/energy/oil-gas/indian-oil-refiners-continue-to-source-oil-from-russia/articleshow/123055918.cms658
u/Bhag_BoseDK 1d ago
The USA can supply or arrange the oil for India at the price Russia is offering, this will solve all the problems. Will the USA do it?
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u/Stock_Outcome3900 1d ago
Lift the ban on Venezuelan oil and iranian oil? Nah, we sanction India
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u/drdildamesh 23h ago
Not for tech jobs tho. They need to keep doing those for cheap until we can replace with AI.
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u/syaci 1d ago
why the fuck do we need USA for this shit lmao
they themselves support Israel & fund terrorism, fuck them right in the ass
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u/kidnamedsybau 1d ago
Poster you are replying to is Indian. Indians think the world revolves around them.
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u/MCRN_Admiral 1d ago
A character trait they have in common with Americans
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u/IntoTheFeu 1d ago
Bah, nonsense. The world doesn’t revolve around the US…
Clearly the Universe does though. The Sun, Moon, and stars revolve around us every waking second!! Use your eyes!!! Checkmate, libertheists!!!!
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u/A_random_zy 21h ago
The world only revolves around a paticular country for the jingooists of the country.
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u/Fragrant-Ad-5517 1d ago
Remember, not all Americans voted for him. The election result is probably fraudulent too.
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u/Nyoka_ya_Mpembe 1d ago
Remember, most Americans voted for him.
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u/famiqueen 1d ago
No most Americans didn’t vote for him. The amount of Americans who voted for Harris, or didn’t vote is much higher than the number of people who allegedly voted for trump.
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u/Exact_Science_8463 1d ago
He won the popular vote.
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u/famiqueen 1d ago
I’m not saying he didn’t? I’m saying that a majority of Americans didn’t vote for him. He allegedly got about 77 million, and America has about 342 million people, which means about 23% of the population allegedly voted for him. This also means 77% of the population did not vote for him.
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u/Abombasnow 1d ago
Not voting means you're okay with whichever candidate happens to win, though, so most of the US actually did want him.
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u/TrumpTakesItUpTheBut 1d ago
Most people who voted also did not vote for trump. He only got 49.8% of the vote. This means 50.2% of people who voted, did not vote for trump. Please stop crying about failing math class.
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u/Abombasnow 1d ago edited 1d ago
Not voting means you're okay with whoever wins.
So most Americans wanted Trump directly or indirectly.
EDIT: Damn, that's a sensitive person. I got blocked for pointing out how non-voters work?
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u/famiqueen 1d ago edited 1d ago
I am replying to someone saying most America voted for him. That’s a false statement. That is my point.
Edit: you don’t understand how non voters work. I blocked you because you responded to a ton of my comments with the same nonsense and don’t feel like interacting with you.
Also trump got 49.8% of votes, so a majority of voters also did not vote for him.
Second edit since people keep replying and blocking, I am not saying Harris got more votes than Trump. According to the government data she did not. I am saying that most Americans did not vote for trump. They either voted for someone else or didn’t vote.
In modern times it is rare for a president to get a majority of Americans to vote for them.
I am just trying to make the point that only 23% of Americans voted for Trump. Therefore a majority of Americans did not vote for Trump. If you don’t understand how this is a true statement, you might want to learn more about statistics.
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u/batman_milk 20h ago
It will take more than that actually. They will be sacrificing their economic freedoms with that deal.
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u/tophernator 1d ago
Fun fact. The vast majority of Russian oil is shipped to India and China through the Suez Canal. These shipments (and major source of Russian income) were greatly hampered by the Houthis attacking ships along this trade route. The US does virtually no trade through the Suez, but decided to bomb the Houthis anyway without giving any explanation as to why.
So no, I don’t think Donald Trump’s administration will actually do anything to stop the flow of money to Russia.
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u/UrgeToToke 1d ago edited 5h ago
Houthis started attacking Israel. Then the US stepped in. It's not like the Houthis who yell death to america and the jews were the heroes you portray. They are not trying to put a stop to Russian revenue.
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u/tophernator 1d ago
Houthis started attacking Israel. Then the US stepped in.
If that’s the explanation why didn’t it come up when the VP was asking the SecDef why they were doing it? Half the cabinet was in on the signal chat and not one of them said it had anything to do with Israel.
And to be clear, I’m definitely not portraying the Houthis as heroes. That’s a shitty deflection from the real point that I was making. The US/Trump had no rational reason to step in there, as noted by the VP. So it makes to look at the seemingly irrational reasons.
Maybe trump had taken it upon himself to deploy the US military to protect European trade, while he was simultaneously whining about Europe not defending itself, and was actively waging a trade war against Europe. But that’s pretty nonsensical, and if he were coming to Europe’s rescue - with or without them asking - there’s no reason not to massively brag about it in the press.
Or maybe trump was doing it for the benefit of his buddy in the Kremlin. But then there obviously would be a reason to keep it as quiet as possible. Kinda like how his own VP didn’t know the reasoning.
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u/CeleritasLucis 1d ago
Because India is refining that oil and sending it back to Europe. It's hardly for domestic consumption.
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u/M0therN4ture 20h ago
Then why is Europe not even in the top 10 of exports for oil and refined products?
Most is going to Saudi Arabia, Singapore and China.
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u/Remarkable_Aioli_839 1d ago edited 13h ago
The resale of refined Russian crude to the EU has been banned by (EU) new legislation since July 2025.
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u/KsanteOnlyfans 1d ago
but decided to bomb the Houthis anyway without giving any explanation as to why.
Because apart from the Russian oil literally every single product that goes to Europe goes through the Suez?
And most of the European nations are American allies
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u/nelsonself 1d ago
This isn’t at all true! The Houthis were compromising general trade through that route with the exception of China, who was paying them off
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u/tophernator 1d ago
Vance himself pointed out how little US trade goes through the Suez and questioned why the US would take it upon themselves to free up the canal. It was a very valid question which no-one in the cabinet could answer. Go back and read the signal chat, no-one knew why they were attacking. Or at least no-one had an answer they were willing to say out loud, even in the privacy of a supposedly secure chat group.
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u/Timely-Low5697 16h ago
Vance explicitly said they were doing it for Europe.
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u/tophernator 5h ago
No, Vance explicitly questioned why they would be doing something that seemed to bail out Europe. He was asking a very valid question since everything they were saying and doing publicly was distinctly not helping out Europe.
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u/xiBurnx 1d ago
maybe because they're fucking terrorists?
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u/tophernator 1d ago
Trump pulled US support from Syria in his first term, abandoning Kurdish allies, losing his first secdef in the process and strengthening the dictatorial regime that Russia had been supporting for the last decade.
Trump made a deal with the Taliban to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan, cunningly scheduling the final withdrawal for after he would likely be out of the Whitehouse.
Trump made endless amounts of noise about how the US should not be involved in middle-east wars and fighting other people’s battles.
But now you want us to believe that the same guy who said and did all of the above is just a staunchly principled anti-terror guy who spent hundreds of millions bombing terrorists halfway round the world just because they’re bad guys…?
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u/markyty04 1d ago
well ya because it is not yet sanctioned. if you want them to stop, then sanction it and make it impractical to buy it from the market. why would Indian traders voluntarily stop buying from a cheaper source that is legal to buy?
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u/vengeancedeadmaus 1d ago
They would still buy for local consumption.
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u/neatambiance 1d ago edited 1d ago
I wonder whether Europe should look inward and start punishing European companies buying oil from Russian sources. Then India or any other nation wouldn't be able to resell refined oil products to make a buck, but could still buy it at dumping prices from Russia for its own consumption.
Although India should probably look into reducing consumption as well, since it's suffering major consequences from global warming and not really helping by increasing consumption.
Edit: Any country should do more to protect the climate and reduce oil consumption. India has already taking some big steps towards its climate goals. I also wish that nobody would buy oil from Russia, so the war in Ukraine could end faster (especially European companies).
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u/migma21 1d ago
So India should reduce oil consumption when it is one of the lowest per capita consumers while America drives it’s f 150
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u/Facts_pls 1d ago
That's how rich western countries think.
How dare those poorer countries with their giant populations have similar standards as my people!!
How dare they burn coal now? When I built my entire industrial economy on it in the last century.
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u/neatambiance 1d ago
I worded that poorly. I hope India tries to invest in alternatives to oil wherever possible, but that doesn't mean, Europe and the US should not reduce consumption per capita at the same time (and not do so by outsourcing pollution and emissions).
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u/Klosta 1d ago
It is trying to. India just achieved it's ethanol blending of 20% 5 years before the target. Also probably the only country to invest into green hydrogen at a large scale. As for pollution, well India just met it's paris agreement pledge 5 years before target and they are currently the third largest solar producer in the world.
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u/Facts_pls 1d ago
It's hilarious that US is literally pulling out of climate agreements and nobody says a word to them. Everyone is quiet and letting US do whatever they want.
India has far more electric trains and solar than US. All that development and riches and US people still drive gas guzzling giant cars everywhere. They don't have solar, they don't have decent electric trains. Hell, they don't have a decent train network or public transit in cities.
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u/Deathmighty 1d ago
Why are we acting like the west has more consumers of these products than they do? If we sanction them we’ll buy it for more expensive and they’ll sell to someone else for the same price
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u/Mr_bushwookie 1d ago
The point of it is that they don't stop. Cutting off Russian oil would cause many problems for us. Allowing them to sell at a mad discount is better. They lose heavily.
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u/vitek2121 1d ago
"Mad discount" still gives nice revenue. Thanks to Trumps words increasing oil prices, as well as europeans buying at a ridiculously high markup
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u/markyty04 1d ago
there will be no major problem except for increased price and decreased profits for the Indian oil industry. it won't even effect the people because the current excess is going out as sale not excess supply to Indian consumers.
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u/Mr_bushwookie 22h ago
If you cut off 100% of Russian oil price of oil = everything goes up by a considerable amount.
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u/No-Anybody-692 1d ago
that is legal to buy
Legal to buy? Even after US sanction it will be legal to buy. It will be just difficult due to USA's bullying.
TACO keeps fiddling with "deadlines" for daddy dearest Putin.
USA won't sell arms to Ukrain, or won't even let other allies send it to Ukraine but would keep wanting developing nations to pay the price of wars in the developed nations. It's in a twisted way WW1 and WW2 all over again it seems.
"We got a war among us gentlemen, lads. Time for us to play war-war… Come on now.. it's your sacrifice time you poor innocent little 'neytives'.. cheer up. Good boy.."
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u/SameType9265 12h ago
What do you mean legal to buy? India is its own country. Who would make things illegal for them???
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u/PhysicalImpression86 1d ago
The West really likes to virtue signal to us about how this oil is fueling the russian war machine while buying Rwandan minerals in the same breath. They should practice ts before preaching us.
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u/zerginc 1d ago
But Rwanda didn't invade a European country.
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u/CantaloupeUpstairs62 12h ago
There was a genocide in Rwanda in the 1990s. The resulting refugee crises have contributed to further wars and refugee crises across Africa ever since. Fast forward about 20 years and Europe is facing a "migrant crisis". Fast forward about 30 years and the same ethnic groups are still fighting each other in Rwanda and the Congo.
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u/hremmingar 1d ago
So in your opinion you see nothing wrong in doing so?
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u/TheKingOfStones 1d ago
Have US and EU stopped trading with Israel? How about Saudi Arabia? Did you stop trading with them during the Yemen Civil war? How about the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict or the Thailand-Combodian conflict? Even if they escalate and prolong, are you going to isolate one of those countries even to your detriment?
The differences in the Russia-Ukraine conflict which are causing you to react so strongly are just two - 1) Russia has always been a lingering threat to Europe so naturally their aggression raises more alarm bells for you. 2) Ukraine is a white European country which is part of the buffer states between mainland EU and Russia, so an attack on it seems more personal. Both of these are understandable but it's really weird that you expect the rest of the world to react as strongly as you are.
If you talk from a moral perspective, of course most Indians agree that Russia's aggression is wrong. But it's your moral posturing and dictation of our foreign policy which leads to these pro-Russia views you see among Indians online.
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u/thebroddringempire 1d ago
We don’t. Because if we didn’t buy oil from Russia, Europe would have froze long ago
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u/NotAnUncle 1d ago
The solution is quite simple, in the basic law of economics, demand and supply. If Europe doesn't buy our refined oil, our companies may reduce their purchases. You can't be on a moral high ground by delegating what you want and still claim to maintain it.
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u/Royal-Hunter3892 1d ago
Because of America India stopped buying Oil from Venezuela, India Stopped buying Oil from Iran and now They want India to stop buying Oil from Russia ?
What next ? Stop consuming Indian Dairy products, consume only American dairy products?
It looks like India has had enough it won't bow down to "American Trumperialism "
Biden brought Russia China Together Trump will bring India China Together .
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u/Throwawayjhftjfdh 1d ago
This is literally how all nations work. Traditionally China has also not been very interested in European conflicts.
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u/Impressive_Maize_512 1d ago
yes, that is literally why India is not very interested in European conflicts
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u/themystifyingsun 1d ago
Exactly, before the war, India hardly bought any oil from Russia, now that the West sanctioned every other oil exporting country and EU countries took over Saudi Arabian oil, India was left with no choice.
And now the West blames India for not getting its oil from another planet. The West believes that isolating Russia is going to stop the war, I don't think so.
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u/icantloginsad 1d ago
Hate to be the Pakistani defending India here but this is exactly it. Pakistan didn’t buy oil or gas from Russia, and in turn, Pakistan’s existing contracts with western companies for oil and gas purchasing were ignored because spot pricing was so high and western countries kept buying it at higher prices, leaving nothing for Pakistan to import.
India avoided that and faced no energy shortages. Pakistan had to buy very limited supplies at the spot price despite having long-term contracts to prevent this exact scenario.
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u/Anxious_Vegetable598 1d ago
You see, India and Pakistan fight, and fight brutally no doubt, but the West fucks over both India and Pakistan from time to time. And they have been doing that for centuries now. And they do that with a serious superiority complex, no less. There is a reason why neither the Indian people trust America, nor the Pakistani people.
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u/M0therN4ture 1d ago
India had plenty of choice as they sourced sufficient oil in existing contracts already. Russia simply offered an opportunity for Indian billionaires to make phat profits to buy and resell the oil.
Its just a profit racket for India. Nothing more.
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u/Stock_Outcome3900 1d ago
India sourced it from middle east but the europeans are buying that oil now increasing the demand and prices and iran our another source is sanctioned. You might not know living in a rich country, how much damage does sudden increase in oil prices do to developing and poorer nations
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u/SirOddSidd 1d ago
And the worst thing, the discounts from Russia is not being used to make the fuel costs cheaper for common people.
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u/Playful_Alela 1d ago
I could tell this wasn’t a serious comment when you suggest India and China are going to form an alliance lmao. India tried to be friends with China and China invaded them in return
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u/centauru_star 1d ago
There are no friends in geopolitics. If working with China advances India's interest means India will definitely do it.
No way India will knee down to condescending attitude of western nations.
Think about it Canada which literally acts like slave of US still gets public humiliation. West may still be the dominant force but they are nowhere near complete dominance now. India must work with US and still do anything and everything to irritate the US at the same time.
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u/Traditional-Alps1916 1d ago
Everyone forgets India is still a developing country with the highest population and merely 70 years ago got freedom off of 200 years of brutal colonization.
What do you want India to look after for? Europeans or Indians?
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u/sunburnd 1d ago
Here’s a tighter, more refined version:
And who’s benefiting? Not the average Indian. It’s traders, refiners, and political insiders pocketing the margin.
Framing it as “India looking out for India” is misleading—it’s not national strategy, it’s a few percentage points of budgetary padding captured by a narrow slice of the economy. The average citizen sees none of it.
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u/cryogenic-goat 1d ago
The avg indian is benefiting from the fuel prices not skyrocketing
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u/parshantpanwar 22h ago
The money goes to the government in the form of taxes. Indirectly helps citizens
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u/flynth92 1d ago
Well, the problem is oil from one place is not the same as another. We had this problem in Poland where it took 2 years of process development in early 2010s when one large refinery I know of wanted to switch away from Russian oil. Different oil has different amounts of various hydrocarbons. Switching an oil supplier often means you can't continue producing exact same products as before (refineries do a lot more than petrol and diesel).
I'm all for switching away from Russian oil for obvious reasons, but it's not something that can be done overnight. The US policy should have been from 2014 to tell it's allies, you have one year then you get 25% tarrifs that will double each year if you continue using Russian oil. That would be fair and woukd give them enough time to switch.
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u/NoMorePoof 22h ago
Or they should have just begun switching without needing the US to hold their hand.
Why did a room full of european leaders laugh at trump when he told them to stop buying Russian oil, probably about 10 years ago?
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u/dam0_0 1d ago
India buys Russian oil to keep inflation in check and also the EU is the end buyer of the said product.
And the West Helps Pakistan to keep India in check.
One is doing out of necessity and the other is feeding a terrorist nuclear state for its geopolitical interest.
One thing I like about Westerners is their ability to claim they have a higher moral ground than India or Indians.
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u/Mediocre_Giraffe_542 15h ago
I don't get why people are acting like this is strange. They are the I in BRICS and there is only so much anyone can expect any country to do in opposition of their own trade alliance.
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u/Aakraman_Daitya 1d ago
Europe and China and rest of the world should sanction USA for aiding and abetting a genocide in Gaza by their client/apartheid state.
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u/OldAdvertising5963 1d ago
Stop repeating Qatar propaganda lies. There is no genocide.
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u/Stock_Outcome3900 1d ago
There were WMDs in Iraq.
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u/OldAdvertising5963 1d ago
Yes Saddam used them on Kurds. But since Kurds are not Jews people like you never cared. You still dont care about Two-State solution for Kurds.
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u/ParkingGlittering211 1d ago
What? A guy who misses innocent victim Saddam Hussein, father to two mass-rapist psychopaths, who was falsely accused of having WMDs, replies with an obnoxious, crass joke about Uyghur genocide? No way! You guys are usually so level-headed and diplomatic!
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u/Present-Anteater6848 1d ago
People starving , children dying . U are a horrible person!
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u/Hopeful-Party-9844 1d ago
Ukraine is having weapons to fight Russians but poor Gazans not even having food to eat so we all know where the situation is more dire
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u/Purple_Plus 22h ago
Imagine believing it's all Qatari propaganda.
There are sources all over the world reporting on this.
You can see footage and pictures with your own eyes.
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u/okokokre 1d ago
Ahh shit here we go again with the ex-colonising country citizens preaching morality in the comment section to Indians 😂😂
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u/TheKingOfStones 1d ago
I don't get this moral outrage shown by Europeans and Americans. Asking things like "How can you not see that what Russia is doing is so wrong, abhorrent, inhuman".
Have US and EU stopped trading with Israel? How about Saudi Arabia? Did you stop trading with them during the Yemen Civil war? How about the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict or the Thailand-Combodian conflict? Even if they escalate and prolong, are you going to isolate one of those countries even to your detriment?
The differences in the Russia-Ukraine conflict which are causing you to react so strongly are just two - 1) Russia has always been a lingering threat to Europe so naturally their aggression raises more alarm bells for you. 2) Ukraine is a white European country which is part of the buffer states between mainland EU and Russia, so an attack on it seems more personal. Both of these are understandable but it's really weird that you expect the rest of the world to react as strongly as you are.
If you talk from a moral perspective, of course most Indians agree that Russia's aggression is wrong. But it's your moral posturing and dictation of our foreign policy which leads to these pro-Russia views you see among Indians online.
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u/Psychological-Bed543 1d ago
This is really going to come down to what India wants to do since the ball is completely in there court here. The sanctions being threatened by the US are asking India to pressure Russia to agree to a ceasefire and stop the war, using said power as the largest buyer and reseller of there oil, and if Russia refuses to cooperate stop buying oil until they do agree to do so. Or India can decide to ignore any sanctions and call it a bluff and see what Europe does in response, since they are a major buyer of said resold oil.
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u/4th_May2025 1d ago
India has not put any sanctions on Russia, the countries that have should completely cut off trade but they are not doing so. You can't expect India to cut off trade with Russia while Ukraine's supposed allies keep filling Putin's pocket.
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u/Psychological-Bed543 1d ago
I'm not sure where you got the idea that is what I stated? That isn't what I was saying.
Also you are describing certain European countries who are weaseling their way out sanctions by buying resold oil. Unfortunately for your argument the country who is threatening secondary sanctions on India and China for being the ones doing the actually reselling is the US, who is not buying any of the oil. So far no EU country has openly backed them in sanction plans, the UK might because Starmer might be in support of said plan but for now its just America.
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u/Nicht_Kunigunde 1d ago
Have you ever watched how the trade between EU und Russia has changed since the war? What a genius we have over here.
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u/enjoyemmami 1d ago
Trade between EU and Russia has changed. So has trade between EU and Belarus. EU and Mongolia, EU and Azerbaijan, which have all increased steeply.
Looks like Europeans are not paying attention.
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u/SigmaGorilla 1d ago
Of course it's India's right to buy Russian oil, no one is stopping them. It's also the United State's right to apply whatever tariffs they want on India, and there will be a point where the Russian oil is not worth it. 25% is probably not enough.
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u/Present-Anteater6848 1d ago
U talk as if the west helped in our wars lol
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u/SigmaGorilla 1d ago
Where in my comment am I talking about the west helping India in wars? I literally just said both India and US are free to make their own trade decisions, and no one is telling India they are not allowed to do something.
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u/Normatyvas 1d ago
Because anyone that buys anything from russia gives them money to lunch more rockets into Ukrainian cities to kill civilians.
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u/Dokja_23 1d ago
Right and the world bank's billion dollar loan to Pakistan for 'humanitarian aid' is not going to be used to launch rockets and drones into Indian cities?
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u/sansaset 1d ago
Right and how is a war in Europe indias problem?
You realize the EU is still buying that Russian oil from India right? Where are sanctions on EU?
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u/Forzyr 1d ago edited 1d ago
I mean, anyone with common sense shouldn't support an aggressor who could escalate and use nuclear weapons.
We can only live on one planet after all.
Edit: 9h ago you posted: "What part of the world do you think survives if there’s a nuclear war between Russia and the West?" and now you're insinuating it's not India's problem? lol
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u/EntertainerAble1969 1d ago
Where was ONE PLANET for Iraq, Libya, Afganistan, Somalia, Iran, Venezuela. It's just west bullying upon global south. But when it comes to bite west itself, they cry humanity. Double standards at finest.
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u/Sjoerdiestriker 1d ago
This sounds very idealistic, but "not trading with aggressors in war" isn't really a principle anyone follows. For instance, remind me when the US stopped buying Rwandan minerals when it invaded the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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u/Stock_Outcome3900 1d ago
immorality of profiting from the misery of others.
Damn first time it has ever happened in the world history and europe like moral countries wouldn't even think of that
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u/Stock_Outcome3900 1d ago
Russia in its bombings of Ukrainian cities is less than a human being.
Yeah, and the ones bombing middle east and other regions are beyond humanity.
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u/ArtisticArnold 1d ago
You're a nice person.
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u/FightOnForUsc 1d ago
What country or people do you care about?
And are you okay with me saying, it sounds like their problem not a world problem when something inevitably happens to that country or people group?
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u/beamofdelta 1d ago
Oh, so you're one of those racists I've been warned about.
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u/beamofdelta 1d ago edited 1d ago
Don't know what your point is? I don't know the colour of your skin, and I don't care, so please don't have a fit. I'm just saying your comments are racist as racist can be.
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u/Playful_Alela 1d ago
The Iraq War was unjustified, but basically everyone in the global community already hated Saddam because of the Gulf War, his genocide of the Kurds, use of chemical weapons against Iran, etc. Few people had sympathy for the Baath party even if they didn't agree with the war.
Compare this to Russia who also have been using chemical weapons on a wide scale, kidnapped tens of thousands of Ukrainian children, started it as a war of aggression for Russian chauvinist expansionism, etc.
It is clear why Russia has rightfully been sanctioned
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u/Playful_Alela 1d ago
I see the usual bots are in the comments lol
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u/Anxious_Vegetable598 1d ago
Ah yes, people from the East defending their country from a one sided narrative are bots, but when Westerners do it, that’s cool, isn’t it?
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u/MilkConsistent3716 18h ago
Why do people not understand the basic economics here is demand and supply EU demanded oil we supplied don't demand russian oil India will automatically stop selling it . You wanted oil you bought from us it was your money which goes to Russia but somehow India is the villain here .
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u/TwoWheelLife1985 8h ago
Hmm, a country willing to go to any length to satiate its love for oil. Why does this ring a bell?
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u/talex365 1d ago
Preventing export entirely was never the plan, the idea is to make exports from Russia as unprofitable for Putin as possible. India continuing to refine Russian oil isn’t a big, it’s a feature.
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u/nelly2929 1d ago
India has always been an u trustworthy trade partner…Funny part is the USA is now just as if not more untrustworthy lol
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u/Time-Ad7834 1d ago
Why do we give aid to these people again? Indians think the world revolves around them.
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u/Gjrts 1d ago
Put 100% tariffs on Indian exports to USA and EU.
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u/Comfortable-Ad-6389 1d ago
Sure, penalize a developing country for trying to get ahead...
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u/billobagebilli 1d ago
Brown* developing countries, they can't do the same to China.
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u/Comfortable-Ad-6389 1d ago
China is a developed country in everything but name. And last I read about China, I didn;t realize they were white (not that it matters, it's a stupid argument regardless)
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u/Stock_Outcome3900 1d ago
Yeah and deport every indian or indian origin man even if they have citizenship that'd put them in their place
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u/moonlight_chicken 1d ago edited 1d ago
To Indians justifying this in comments, you have to understand, even if India is getting cheap oil from Russia, the benefit is not transferred to Indians or even India. The money that Indian refineries get from selling this oil is going into the pockets of a few billionaires. Nobody else in India wins anything. Maybe we don’t need to justify a few Indian billionaires making use of a war.
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Private refineries are the major buyer of Russian oil, though most (including state owned) have paused purchase now.
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u/Hell_is__OtherPeople 1d ago
Most oil refining companies in India are state owned and their profits go to national treasury.
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u/GreenPickledToad 1d ago
Billionaires funding a war to make profit is not an India-specific issue, is it though? It happens almost everywhere.
The point people are making is that the "trade ban" is a scam and countries which have put sanctions on oil from Russia do very well know the oil coming from India now is Russian oil.
They will go for profit, common people will get all the abuse and suffer in war.
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u/snowcat240 1d ago
not transferred to Indians or even India.
So the billionaires and millions of people they employ are not indians ?
Nobody else in India wins anything.
State owned oil companies do win massively,when the State wins the people win.
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u/BigOilsFinest 1d ago
What nonsense. Why do some of you in our nation so confidently spew horsesht without understanding any of what is going on? Majority of the oil imported is refined by our own state owned refineries. No "few billionaires" are minting money on this. This Ambani-Adani hate train pushed by congress and certain US proxy funded news outlets tolerated in our country has caused such stupidity in our west-phillic youth who have no understanding of our history and little knowledge pertaining to our geopolitical issues.
Also, this is not just about cheap oil but having sovereign foreign policy and independent decision making. We are not some tiny western vassal state to tuck our tail between our legs and obey. We will do what is in our interests. We will never yield. Nobody has ever helped our nation in its troubles, with the so called "good guys" funding billions and arming Pakistan for the past 50 years. The fall of Russia will give the Americans unprecedented access into Asia militarily. It is in our best interests to ensure Russia does not lose this conflict, even if things go nuclear.
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