Peter Navarro blames Russia-Ukraine conflict on India

[struggle4progress]

White House trade advisor’s comments come hours after US imposes 50% tariffs on Indian goods

Maroosha Muzaffar
Thursday 28 August 2025 12:33 BST

... rump’s trade adviser, Peter Navarro, ... claimed that India’s ongoing purchases of Russian oil were “funding the war machine”.

His remarks came just hours after the US implemented 50 per cent tariffs on Indian goods on Wednesday ...

When the journalist said, “You mean Putin’s war?” Mr Navarro was quick to correct: “Modi’s war” ...

While Russia now supplies 35–40 per cent of India’s crude, up from under 2 per cent before February 2022, New Delhi has also stated that the US has not applied similar tariffs to China, the EU, or other major Russian oil importers ...

https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/india/trump-russia-ukraine-modi-war-tariffs-peter-navarro-b2815710.html

[LakeVermilion]

1. Shouldn't Navarro still be in jail?

Just asking for a friend.

[zorbasd]

2. The lying traitors in this facsist gangster regime

will someday meet a street lamp post.

[newdeal2]

3. They are getting crazier and crazier

They’ve made a mess of both the war and the tariffs and are now passing the blame to third parties.

[struggle4progress]

6. Putin's missiles just hit a UK diplomatic site in Kyiv

so Putin's stooges are rushing to divert attention

[lostincalifornia]

4. Navarro has always been an unhinged crazy jackass, which is why he fits in perfectly in the current administration.

[maxsolomon]

5. His rhetoric is intemperate

But if India had sworn off Russian oil, Putin wouldn't have as much money to build drones & glide bombs.

Modi is keeping the war going as sure as Xi is.

[struggle4progress]

8. Meet the pro-Putin Republicans and conservatives

... “The Soviet Union back before Russia when it broke up contained all of Ukraine including Crimea. The country itself is not really a country.”

Peter Navarro ...
December 2021 ...

https://accountability.gop/ukraine-quotes/

Navarro's just covering for Putin

[fujiyamasan]

7. And the US is directly funding genocide in Gaza

What’s this ass hole’s point?

[struggle4progress]

9. Netanyahu is another Putin stooge

[Midnight Writer]

10. I reckon he has let Biden off the hook for this, then?

[MaineBlueBear]

11. Anyone except Russia

Traitor

[republianmushroom]

12. peter navarro is another putin loving republican.

Walking in the shadow of the convicted felon trump.