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Re:Russian oil sold to India at 30% above Western price cap,... by NickC25 on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @12:14PM (#37753874)
The US is still using Russian oil and India is just a middleman taking a 30% cut?
Re:Russian oil sold to India at 30% above Western price cap,... by blitzar on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @12:53PM (#37754462)
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)

Re:Russian oil sold to India at 30% above Western price cap,... by stg22 on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @12:58PM (#37754528)
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.

Re:Russian oil sold to India at 30% above Western price cap,... by frankharv on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @01:11PM (#37754707)
They also took cocaine off Trudeau's plane during the G20 summit recently.

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

Re:Russian oil sold to India at 30% above Western price cap,... by lesuorac on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @01:22PM (#37754855)
> 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...

Re:Russian oil sold to India at 30% above Western price cap,... by reducesuffering on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @01:25PM (#37754901)
They claimed that. I wonder why India might want to make up ridiculous claims about Canada recently, hmm...
Re:Russian oil sold to India at 30% above Western price cap,... by killdozer on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @01:43PM (#37755153)
You don't actually believe this given the recent issue between these two countries do you?
Re:Russian oil sold to India at 30% above Western price cap,... by m00x on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @02:27PM (#37755699)
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.

Re:Russian oil sold to India at 30% above Western price cap,... by seanmcdirmid on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @02:28PM (#37755713)
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?