The time of the alliance between Donald Trump and Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India, so well staged during the first mandate of the American president, is over. The tenant of the White House put his threats by signing, Wednesday, August 6, a decree inflicting in New Delhi 25% additional customs duties, as a sanction for the purchases of Russian oil from the subcontinent. This new penalty, effective from August 27, is added to the 25% of taxes on Indian products exported to the United States to come into force this Thursday, August 7. The country is now treated with as much violence as the Brazil of the left president, Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva, opponent declared to Donald Trump.
This escalation jeopardizes the alliance between Washington and New Delhi, supposed to counterbalance China, and arouses a feeling of betrayal in India, where the agreement between the two populist leaders seemed promising. The words used by the Republican, in a message published on his Truth Social network, give an idea of the degradation of their relations: “I don’t care what India is doing with Russia. They can plug their disaster into it, it is equal to me, “he wrote on July 31.
