How the US Weaponized Pakistan Against India
Normally, Prime Minister Narendra Modi might just overlook a few social media posts. It may be humiliating to wind up with higher tariff rates than India's peers after wooing Trump, but that can be shrugged off as well. Yet the president didn't stop at trade. He twisted the knife by announcing a tariff deal with Pakistan on the very same day — and added that US companies would help India's troubled neighbor extract oil from recently discovered reserves, and that ' maybe they'll be selling oil to India one day.'
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