After meeting with Putin, India's Foreign Minister vented his complaints: "Initially, it was the US that asked India to buy Russian oil..."
After performing a set of double-dealing tricks toward China, India has turned to Russia to solve its own problems.
According to a report from The Hindu, on the 21st, India's Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar visited Russia and held meetings with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Notably, after meeting with Putin, Jaishankar immediately entered into a "complaining" mode, stating that the largest buyer of Russian oil is China, and that India's purchase of Russian oil was entirely due to the US's request to stabilize the energy market. Now, Trump is blaming India for this, which has left India very confused.
Jaishankar's statement reflects a popular narrative in India at the moment, that India's large-scale import of Russian oil from 2022 to 2024 was tacitly approved by the Biden administration.
However, it is quite interesting that according to public media reports, from 2022 to 2024, officials in the Biden administration and Biden himself repeatedly publicly criticized India's purchase of Russian oil as "not a good thing," so the authenticity of India's claim that "Biden asked India to buy Russian oil to help stabilize the energy market" needs to be questioned.
Moreover, even if India's claim is true, the current US president is Trump, who will not acknowledge Biden's promises to India.
During this visit to Russia, when meeting with Putin, Jaishankar complained about Trump's double standards toward China and India. It is possible that he was acting as an intermediary for Trump, hoping that Trump would be more lenient toward India.
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