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🗓️ 4 September 2025
⏱️ 110 minutes
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Donald Trump has declared economic war on India with some of the highest tariffs in the world. So what’s going on? Why is the US and India embroiled in such a huge diplomatic dispute, and could an Indian-Russian-Chinese alliance bloc overtake the United States?
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00:00:00 Intro
00:03:01 India’s Historical Relationship With America
00:12:11 The Cultural Divide Between India and America
00:23:28 Clash of Civilizations
00:32:54 How Mass Migration Soured US-India Relations
00:38:14 Indian Scammers Online
00:42:13 India is Growing Closer to BRICS
00:55:38 China’s Perspective on the US-India Riff
01:06:30 Russia’s Perspective on the US-India Riff
01:08:34 Why Trump and India are Now Feuding
01:12:20 How H1B Visas are Replacing American Workers
01:16:26 Public Sanitation and the Indian Caste System
01:21:16 Will a New Alliance form Between Russia, China, and India?
01:32:20 Does the War in Ukraine Impact Indian Foreign Policy?
01:38:28 India’s Demographic Future
01:42:13 What Will a Multipolar World Look Like?
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello, everyone, and welcome to making the argument from our brand new studio. |
| 0:05.3 | We still got a couple more things to adjust to put on the walls, but we're just about done. |
| 0:10.4 | So we wanted to let you know, no, we're not filming this from some exotic place. |
| 0:15.6 | This is the new studio. |
| 0:17.4 | We're pretty happy with it. |
| 0:18.8 | I want to think everybody to put in the hard work to make it possible. Today, we're going to be asking a question about the relationship |
| 0:25.0 | between India and the United States. Now, this relationship has been somewhat problematic |
| 0:30.1 | in the past, especially during the Cold War, where India largely cozied up to the Soviet Union |
| 0:35.5 | and Pakistan cozied up to the United States. |
| 0:38.3 | Well, that has obviously changed since the fall of the Soviet Union as well as the war on terror, |
| 0:44.2 | where relationships with Pakistan become more and more strained and relationships with India |
| 0:48.6 | seem to be improving. However, very recently, Trump has announced that he is drastically increasing tariffs on India as a result of them purchasing oil from Russia. |
| 1:00.1 | In fact, we pulled up an article here from our good friends over at Ground News where that's the headline. |
| 1:04.8 | Trump's 50% tariffs on India for buying Russian oil take effect. |
| 1:09.0 | Now, obviously, this is going to have a huge impact on India's |
| 1:12.7 | economy at a time where we thought relationships were getting better. At a time where India being |
| 1:17.6 | a member of bricks and pushing them closer to Russia and China could foster problems. So why did |
| 1:22.4 | the Trump administration think it was necessary? Well, you can dig even more into this article here on |
| 1:28.6 | Ground News. Plus, find a number of links to other articles that are covering this from |
| 1:33.0 | left, right, and center. Now, remember, Ground News is both a website and an app, and it |
| 1:37.8 | curates all the latest stories and provides you with insight into who is covering the news |
| 1:41.5 | and why they are covering it. So, if like us, you are a little tired of how other sites curate the news and want more transparency, |
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