New Delhi, Aug. 27 -- However, the reasons behind the tariffs on India are different. According to informed diplomats, the move is not due to India buying Russian oil-purchases that were, in fact, encouraged by the Biden administration in an effort to stabilize the global energy market. Indian business houses, such as Reliance, refined Russian Ural light crude and resold it to the US and European countries-clearly with a significant markup. The lack of objections from Western powers suggests that they were complicit in this arrangement alongside the Biden administration.

This raises an important question: What has gone wrong between President Trump and his once-friendly counterpart, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi?

One widely accept...