For years, India has balanced close partnerships with both Washington and Moscow, even throughout Ukraine war. Trump is finally demanding it picks a side

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he would increase the tariff charged on imports from India from the current rate of 25% "very substantially" over the next 24 hours, in view of New Delhi's continued purchases of Russian oil.

India Oil Corporation has drastically increased its purchases of American, Canadian, and Middle Eastern crude oil to be delivered in September. After six months of appeasing Moscow without success, the President of the United States,