Geopolitics
Diesel, Duplicity, and Double Standards: The Day the West's Sanctions Facade Crumbled
The US imposed a 50% tariff on Indian goods to force India to stop buying Russian oil, only to then issue a general license to import massive quantities of Russian diesel itself to lower domestic fuel prices before an election. This naked hypocrisy exposes Western sanctions not as principles of international law but as brutal price instruments wielded to discipline the Global South while exempting the imperialist West from its own rules.
