Peter Navarro

"Navarro's claims are hypocritical. India's legal, sovereign purchases of Russian oil for energy security do not violate international law. The US, while pressuring India, continues to import billions in Russian goods, like uranium, exposing a clear double standard," the community note on Peter Navarro's post read.

Richard D Wolff called Navarro “not the sharpest knife in the drawer”, asserting that anyone who has a trade relation with Russia is in some way making money off that trade because that is why trade happens.

Peter Navarro brazened out, "It was a shame to see Modi getting in bed, as a leader of the biggest democracy in the world, with the two biggest authoritarians in the world in Putin and Xi Jinping. That doesn't make any sense.

It seems that even Trump administration’s officials have taken note of the anti-Brahmin rhetoric in India unleashed by Congress and other anti-BJP parties and realised that this narrative can be used to get things done and pressure the Modi government into acting as per US’s whims.

There are no sanctions on Russian oil by the United States, G7 countries and the European Union (EU), unlike Iranian oil and Venezuelan oil. India thus did not violate any international norms through its purchase of Russian oil, as it adhered to the price cap imposition.