Peter Navarro dubs the Russia-Ukraine war as “Modi’s war”, signaling the Trump Administration's increasing frustration over Russian oil purchases.
In an interview with Bloomberg on Wednesday, US President Donald Trump’s senior trade advisor blamed Indian PM Narendra Modi for the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
Citing India's adamancy in continuing to purchase Russian oil in 2025, Navarro used bizarre logic to frame New Delhi as being responsible for a war that began with Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Claiming that the "road to peace" between Russia and Ukraine "partly runs through New Delhi", Trump's senior advisor slammed Modi's government for what the Trump Administration views as financing Russia's war machine, but the previous Biden Administration viewed as stabilizing global oil markets.
This comes a day after the US used "secondary sanctions" on Russia to dramatically raise tariffs on Indian products to 50%, leaving low-margin products such as Indian textiles and footwear unavailable in the US market.
“Everybody in America loses because of what India is doing. Consumers, businesses and workers lose because India’s high tariffs cost us jobs, factories and income. And then the taxpayers lose because we’ve got to fund Modi’s war,” Navarro explained.
The interviewer even tried correcting Navarro, interjecting, “you mean Putin’s war?” to which the latter retorted "I mean Modi's war!"
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