‘POBNEWS24, Dhaka July 23,2025 : US Republican Senator Lindsey Graham has warned that the economies of India and China will be destroyed if they do not stop buying oil from Russia.
In an interview with Fox News, he said that President Donald Trump’s administration is planning to impose 100% tariffs on countries that import Russian oil.
Graham said that Trump is going to impose tariffs on countries that buy Russian oil—China, India and Brazil. If you continue to buy cheap Russian oil and wage war, we will destroy your economies.
He claimed that 80 percent of Russia’s oil exports go to these three countries. It is because of them that Russian President Vladimir Putin is able to continue his war against Ukraine.
Addressing these three countries, he said, ‘What you are doing is a bloody economic transaction.’
Graham also said, ‘Putin is trying to reconstruct the former Soviet Union. Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons in the 1990s as promised by Russia, but Putin has broken that promise.
Senator Graham had previously proposed a bill that proposed imposing tariffs of up to 500 percent on countries that trade with Russia.
The Trump administration has announced more weapons for Ukraine as Russia has failed to stop the war, while threatening to impose severe sanctions on Russian oil importers. Last week, President Trump said that if a peace agreement is not reached within 50 days, then Russian oil purchases will have to pay a 100 percent tariff.
In this regard, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said, “Brazil, India and China should force Putin to negotiate peace. Otherwise, they will pay a heavy price.”
Meanwhile, India’s Ministry of External Affairs has responded strongly to this warning. In a statement, it was said, “We have seen the reports published in this regard and are monitoring the situation closely. We want to reiterate that meeting the energy needs of our people is our highest priority. “We are making decisions based on what is available in the market and the global situation. No double standards are acceptable in this regard.”
