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Because that oil is not being consumed in India where it is still Saudi oil running the cars. That oil is being bought by Europe and USA.

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The US is still using Russian oil and India is just a middleman taking a 30% cut?

Yes.

(you maths is out a little but you have the right idea, India pays 30% over the $60 price cap - paying them $80 then sells on at market price to everyone else for ~$90)

Indian firms are importing Russian crude oil at a discount, mixing it with crude from unsanctioned places, refining the mix and selling it for full price on the open market as unsanctioned oil.

New Delhi is confident the US is so desperate for an alliance against China, it can't afford to do anything about it.

That's also why it expects no serious repercussions for assassinating a Canadian citizen in Canada.

They also took cocaine off Trudeau's plane during the G20 summit recently.

https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/india/ottawa-denies-report...

> Former Indian ambassador to Sudan Deepak Vohra said on Monday there were “credible rumours” that “sniffer dogs found cocaine on his plane”, and that Trudeau “didn’t come out of his room for two days”.

I feel like there's a lot of holes here; wouldn't people notice Trudeau's 2 day absence from his 3 day visit to India?

Pretty sure India's ambassadors are as trustworthy as when Russia's said UK [2] bombed Nord Stream 2.

https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releases/2023/08/30/prime-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_G20_New_Delhi_summit

[2]: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-says-british-nav...

They claimed that. I wonder why India might want to make up ridiculous claims about Canada recently, hmm...

You don't actually believe this given the recent issue between these two countries do you?

This was a diplomat joking about the claims from Canada that had no evidence. Canada said "We have credible evidence about India involvement murder of a Canadian citizen". The diplomat meme'd with "We have heard credible rumours of cocaine being on Trudeau's plane".

Then the joke got misrepresented either accidentally or purposefully for clicks.

The US gets most of its oil domestically, but since oil is traded globally, even if it isn't actually getting oil from Russia, maybe parent post thinks it is still complicit by letting India use the oil itself?

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