On August 4th Donald Trump took to Truth Social, his social-media platform, to berate India: because the country’s “massive” oil purchases fund “the Russian War Machine”, he said, it would suffer substantially steeper tariffs than the 25% the president slapped on the country last week. In some ways the president is not wrong: Russia supplied a negligible 0.2% of India’s oil imports before the war in Ukraine. Since then, it has become India’s biggest supplier, providing between 35% and 40%. But Mr Trump’s anger also hints at his worsening relationship with Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister.
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