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speak easy

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Mon Aug 4, 2025, 02:46 PM Aug 2025

"They don't care how many people in Ukraine are being killed "

“They don’t care how many people in Ukraine are being killed by the Russian War Machine” - Krasnov

Trump’s demand that India stop buying Russian oil puts Modi in tight spot

The US president, Donald Trump, has refused to cut tariffs on Indian exports to the US, as he has for other countries, and on Monday said he would significantly raise them over its purchases of cheap Russian oil, which now account for one-third of its imported oil.

“They don’t care how many people in Ukraine are being killed by the Russian War Machine,” he said in a post to his Truth Social network, also accusing India of selling Russian oil “on the Open Market for big profits”. In a previous social media tirade last week, he said of Russia and India: “They can take their dead economies down together.”

Appearing on Fox News on Sunday at the weekend, his hardline deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller, did not hold back as he took direct aim at India, stating that Trump had made it clear “it is not acceptable for India to continue financing this [Ukraine] war by purchasing the oil from Russia”.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/04/donald-trump-demand-that-india-stop-buying-russian-oil-puts-narendra-modi-in-tight-spot

Vance: Russia-Ukraine war 'is not our war, it's Joe Biden's war'
The US is stepping back from the talks making it clear this is between Russia and Ukraine and it's really not our game.
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"They don't care how many people in Ukraine are being killed " (Original Post) speak easy Aug 2025 OP
India is Melon Aug 2025 #1

Melon

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1. India is
Mon Aug 4, 2025, 02:50 PM
Aug 2025

The fastest growing Asian economy and where manufacturing is moving to, but oil purchases are absolutely funding Russia. They buy oil at a 30% discount and wash it into the global oil market. They along with Turkey are also re packaging or branding Russian Chemicals and selling them globally.

India has a trader mentality without loyalty to profit.

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