‘They all hate each other’: Trump’s aide Navarro’s latest attack on India, China; ‘vampire’ dig at Brics | India News

US President Donald Trump‘s senior trade adviser Peter Navarro on Monday continued his rant and this time trained his guns at the member countries of Brics, calling them “vampires”.Navarro claimed the member countries of Brics cannot survive without trading with the United States.“They’ve long hated each other—and none survive without selling to the United State.” he added.Trump’s adviser raked up several examples where he tried to convince that the alliance is not working out.“The bottomline is that none of these countries can survive if they don’t sell to the United States, and when they sell to the United States their exports, they’re like vampires sucking our blood dry with their unfair trade practices. Let’s see what happens. But I don’t see how the BRICS stays together since historically they all hate each other and kill each other,” he said.“Let’s see how this is going to work out… Russia is getting into bed with China. China claims they own Vladivostok- the Russian port, and they’re already through massive illegal immigration into Siberia, basically colonizing Siberia, which is the biggest landmass of the Russian semi-empire, so good luck with that, Putin, and then India, of course, is at war with China for decades. It was China that gave Pakistan a nuclear bomb. You got ships flying around the Indian Ocean now with Chinese flags. Modi, see how you kind of worked that out. Meanwhile, the Brazil economy is going down the tubes because of Lula’s socialist policies- well, they keep the real leader of that country in a cell. Let’s see what happens,” he added.Earlier, Navarro had accused India of driving Moscow’s war machine by importing discounted Russian crude.“FACTS: India highest tariffs costs US jobs. India buys Russian oil purely to profit/Revenues feed Russia war machine. Ukrainians/Russians die. US taxpayers shell out more. India can’t handle truth/spins,” Navarro wrote in a late-night post.X users flagged Navarro’s post with multiple community notes, correcting his assertions.The fact-checks stressed that India’s Russian oil purchases are made for “energy security” and do not violate any international sanctions.This comes as US is in a tense trade and foreign policy standoff with India, following Washington’s decision to impose punitive secondary tariffs on Indian exports for buying Russian oil.India has termed the tariffs imposed on it as “unjustified and unreasonable.”“Like any major economy, India will take all necessary measures to safeguard its national interests and economic security,” India has said.