India, Jan. 6 -- The US President Donald Trump confidently announced that the US would "run" Venezuela, and American oil giants would rebuild the South American nation's "battered" oil sector. In an unexpected fashion, this may prove to be a boon to India, and may offer an alternative supplier to Russia's oil. This is because Russian imports continued in December 2025, and Trump stated after the Venezuelan raid that Washington could further increase the tariffs on Indian imports if New Delhi continued to buy oil from Russia. Venezuela may be able to replace Russia as a prominent supplier in the future.

One of the reasons why Trump is angry with India is because the latter buys huge quantities from Russia, but fails to import from America...