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with all the aid we send to India we should cut that immediately

we don't really send that much aid to India #1. Average is something like $140 million a year over the last 20 years. That's a minuscule percentage of the yearly federal budget.

#2 - India is just acting in the best national interests of India. This is pretty much how all countries operate. They need oil for an expanding economy that will soon be the 3rd largest economy in the world and a massive population that is growing like a weed and outpacing China and will soon become the largest population in the world- and if they can buy oil at a discount- well of course they are going to do it. India's national interests don't equal US national interests or Ukraine national interests.

we don't really send that much aid to India #1. Average is something like $140 million a year over the last 20 years. That's a minuscule percentage of the yearly federal budget.

good thats $140 mil a year we can put to good use here at home

$140 million is the average over 20 years. It's actually around $110 million now per cincy's link. That's an insignificant amount in the grand scheme of things when you're talking about a federal budget that's 6-7 trillion dollars. $110 million is a drop in the bucket that won't even buy 1,000 hammers and 1,000 toilet seats for the pentagon.

good then they wont miss it

Id also review our tariffs that we have with India

nothing personal its just business

India has decided that getting Russian oil is more important then trying to persuade Putin not to attack other nations so they should understand

good then they wont miss it

Id also review our tariffs that we have with India

nothing personal its just business

India has decided that getting Russian oil is more important then trying to persuade Putin not to attack other nations so they should understand

how would pulling $110 million in aid and imposing tariffs on India be business just because they decided to buy Russian oil at discounts? It wouldn't. That actually sounds like quite the opposite- sounds like an emotional or personal reaction- and not business.

You do realize how stupid that sounds, no - when basically all of Western Europe is still buying oil & gas from Russia. Today. How about you pull aid and impose tariffs on EU countries while you're at it?

US is the moral arbiter of nothing and no one. We have stacked way higher dead body counts and have more blood on our hands than just about any country in the world. If we want to impose bans in the US from importing Russian oil, that's fine. We can't tell other countries what they can and can't do and then act all emotional like a bunch of females when they don't do what we tell them to do.

India is the 3rd largest consumer of oil in the world as well as the 3rd largest importer of oil in the world behind only China and the US. They consume a lot more oil than they produce. They only produce around 627k barrels of oil per day- they consume almost 4.5 million. It's not realistic or fair to tell them they can't buy oil from Russia because we said so. Of course they are going to buy it- and of course they'll buy it at discounts. They literally have to- they have no other choice as they import around 85-86% of their total oil consumption. 

I think India government official said it best in that article....

“Countries with oil self-sufficiency or those importing themselves from Russia cannot credibly advocate restrictive trading,”

how would pulling $110 million in aid and imposing tariffs on India be business just because they decided to buy Russian oil at discounts? It wouldn't. That actually sounds like quite the opposite- sounds like an emotional or personal reaction- and not business.

You do realize how stupid that sounds, no - when basically all of Western Europe is still buying oil & gas from Russia. Today. How about you pull aid and impose tariffs on EU countries while you're at it?

US is the moral arbiter of nothing and no one. We have stacked way higher dead body counts and have more blood on our hands than just about any country in the world. If we want to impose bans in the US from importing Russian oil, that's fine. We can't tell other countries what they can and can't do and then act all emotional like a bunch of females when they don't do what we tell them to do.

India is the 3rd largest consumer of oil in the world as well as the 3rd largest importer of oil in the world behind only China and the US. They consume a lot more oil than they produce. They only produce around 627k barrels of oil per day- they consume almost 4.5 million. It's not realistic or fair to tell them they can't buy oil from Russia because we said so. Of course they are going to buy it- and of course they'll buy it at discounts. They literally have to- they have no other choice as they import around 85-86% of their total oil consumption.

I think India government official said it best in that article....

“Countries with oil self-sufficiency or those importing themselves from Russia cannot credibly advocate restrictive trading,”

never the less I'd make that decision as uncomfortable for them as possible 

They clearly dont share the world's  values of freedom so they suffer the consequences

Nothing to do with Ukraine. Post it somewhere else.

Russia followed up their announcement of "fewer attacks on Kyiv" with heavier bombardment the past two nights, than before.

They're lying sacks of shit.

To negotiate with them, is to be abused by them.  It's not ever going to be in Ukraine's interest to cede any territory to Russia, because inevitably they'll come back and kill more Ukrainians when they feel like taking more.

This isn't speculation, it's the reality of what's happening right now.