“Bumbling Presidency: How India, Russia, And Reality Mocked Donald Trump”, Swarajyamag, September 6, 2025:
“The internet broke down last weekend when surreal news emerged that India had become the single largest supplier of diesel to Ukraine. Reeling in disbelief, it took our worthy netizens a while to realise the deeper significance of this news: much of this diesel was refined from crude oil imported into India from Russia.
As a result, you had the bizarre spectacle of a Ukrainian army fighting Russia on the battlefield, driven by Russian fuel. Even Lewis Carroll would not have been able to conjure such an unbelievable situation when composing Alice in Wonderland. The world had just slipped into the mother of all rabbit holes, mad hats and all.
That news was the cue for American president Donald Trump to go even more ballistic in his rantings against India and its supposed trade surplus vis-à-vis America. This was not true, since the latest figures actually show a three billion dollar trade surplus in America’s favour…….”
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