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Scott Bessent: “India started buying Russian oil after the conflict began…”

Featuring: Scott Bessent, Republican | Secretary of the Treasury | National

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Published | Video Starts at 30:31

And just to be clear that we have Europe buying Russian oil still, still four years later, they are financing the war against themselves. India started buying Russian oil after the conflict began, but President Trump put a 25% tariff on them. And India has geared down and has stopped buying Russian oil. And then three, China is a very large buyer of Russian oil as they are of Iranian oil, as they were of Venezuelan oil. (30:31–30:40)

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Asserts that India started buying Russian oil after the conflict began, but a 25% tariff was imposed by President Trump.

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