Trump bestraft 1,4 Milliarden Menschen für die Aktionen von 2 Unternehmen

Classic move to pitch the population against its own companies.

SS: In *Foreign Policy*, Syed Akbaruddin, former Indian permanent representative to the UN, argues that the Trump administration is wrongly conflating private trade with national policy by threatening sweeping tariffs on India over refined Russian crude exports. He notes that only two private firms — Reliance Industries and Nayara Energy — are involved, and blanket tariffs would punish thousands of unrelated exporters, harm goodwill, and weaken cooperation.

While U.S. officials accuse India of profiteering, Akbaruddin points out that Western buyers, including American companies, also purchase from these refiners, making selective penalties hypocritical. He urges Washington to adopt Europe’s calibrated approach of stricter origin checks and targeted enforcement instead of blunt tariffs, warning that scapegoating undermines the U.S.-India partnership.

Coming from a seasoned ex-diplomat and former flagbearer of Indian foreign policy, the piece doubles as elite signaling: India may tolerate, and some in the establishment may even welcome, firm-specific sanctions (Gospodin Magnitsky, anyone?), but not broad punitive measures against the country itself.