{"id":5941,"date":"2025-08-28T10:53:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T10:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/russia-ukraine-conflict-is-modis-war-says-trumps-aide-amid-tariff-tension\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T10:53:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T10:53:04","slug":"russia-ukraine-conflict-is-modis-war-says-trumps-aide-amid-tariff-tension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/russia-ukraine-conflict-is-modis-war-says-trumps-aide-amid-tariff-tension\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia-Ukraine conflict is \u2018Modi\u2019s war\u2019, says Trump\u2019s aide amid tariff tension"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Amid the heightening tension between India and the United States over the fresh tariff imposed by Donald Trump, a close aide of the US President on Wednesday launched a fresh attack on New Delhi, saying the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict is &lsquo;Modi&rsquo;s war&rsquo;.<\/p>\n<p>White House trade adviser Peter Navarro&rsquo;s latest tirade, insinuating India&rsquo;s continued purchase of Russian oil, came on the day when the additional 25 per cent punitive tariff on Indian imports to the US came into effect.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Everybody in America loses because of what India is doing. The consumers and businesses and everything lose, and workers lose because India&rsquo;s high tariffs cost us jobs, and factories, and income and higher wages. And then the taxpayers lose because we got to fund Modi&rsquo;s war,&rdquo; Navarro said in an interview to Bloomberg TV.<\/p>\n<p>When the anchor asked him whether he misspoke and wanted to say &lsquo;Putin&rsquo;s war&rsquo;, the US official replied that he said it intentionally.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I mean Modi&rsquo;s war, because the road to peace runs, in part, through New Delhi,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration has been accusing New Delhi of funding Putin&rsquo;s &lsquo;war machine&rsquo; through large purchases of Russian oil. The President had even claimed that the high tariff he imposed on Indian goods would exert pressure on Russia to end the war.<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>Navarro, in the same interview, accused Indians of being arrogant.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;What&rsquo;s troubling to me is that the Indians are so arrogant about this. They say, &lsquo;Oh, we don&rsquo;t have higher tariffs. Oh, it&rsquo;s our sovereignty. We can buy oil from any one we want&rsquo;,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;India, you&rsquo;re the biggest democracy in the world. Okay? Act like one. Side with the democracies&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>Navarro also lambasted India&rsquo;s overtures to China and its growing relations with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You&rsquo;re getting in bed with the authoritarians. China, you&rsquo;ve been at quiet war with them for decades. They invaded Aksai Chin and all your territory. These are not your friends, folks. Okay? And the Russians, I mean, come on,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Navarro had earlier called India the &lsquo;Maharaja of tariffs&rsquo; and accused New Delhi of cheating the US in trade.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In India, 25% tariffs were put in place because they cheat us on trade. Then 25% because of the Russian oil&hellip; They have higher tariffs, Maharaja tariffs,&rdquo; he had said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/migrant-acquitted-in-first-trial-over-us-border-military-zones\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">Migrant acquitted in first trial over US border military zones<\/span><\/a><\/div><p><sub>Russia-Ukraine conflict is &lsquo;Modi&rsquo;s war&rsquo;, says Trump&rsquo;s aide amid tariff tension<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the heightening tension between India and the United States over the fresh tariff imposed by Donald Trump, a close aide of the US President on Wednesday launched a fresh attack on New Delhi, saying the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict is &lsquo;Modi&rsquo;s war&rsquo;. White House trade adviser Peter Navarro&rsquo;s latest tirade, insinuating India&rsquo;s continued purchase of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/russia-ukraine-conflict-is-modis-war-says-trumps-aide-amid-tariff-tension\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Russia-Ukraine conflict is \u2018Modi\u2019s war\u2019, says Trump\u2019s aide amid tariff tension&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5942,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}