{"id":163345,"date":"2025-09-06T07:10:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T07:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/india-will-say-sorry-to-us-in-next-2-months-lutnick-says-india-must-choose-between-russia-brics-us-mint\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T07:10:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T07:10:00","slug":"india-will-say-sorry-to-us-in-next-2-months-lutnick-says-india-must-choose-between-russia-brics-us-mint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/india-will-say-sorry-to-us-in-next-2-months-lutnick-says-india-must-choose-between-russia-brics-us-mint\/","title":{"rendered":"India will \u2018say sorry\u2019 to US in next 2 months: Lutnick says India must choose between Russia, BRICS, US – Mint"},"content":{"rendered":"

India is likely to apologise to Donald Trump and seek a deal with the President of the Unites States in a couple of month, US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick<\/a> on Friday.He also criticised India\u2019s decsion to buy oil from Russian oi, calling it \u201cridiculous,\u201d and said the New Delhi needs to decide which side it wants to be on.
During an interview with Bloomberg, Lutnick noted, “In a month or two months, I think India is going to be at the table, and they’re going to say they’re sorry, and they’re going to try to make a deal with Donald Trump.”
“And it will be on Donald Trump<\/a>‘s desk how he wants to deal with (Narendra) Modi, and we leave that to him. That’s why he’s the President,\u201d he added.
On India buying oil from Russia, Lutnick noted that before the war, India b
ought less than 2% of its oil from but now it accounts for about 40% of its imports. He said,\u201cWhat they’re doing is, because the oil is sanctioned, it’s really, really cheap because the Russians are trying to find people to buy it. And so the Indians have just decided, \u2018Ah, the heck with it. Let’s buy it cheap and make a ton of money.\u201d
Noting that the action is just plain wrong and ridiculous, he said India needs to decide which side it wants to be on.
He further pointed out that India is still unwilling to open its market, cut back on Russian oil purchases, or step away from BRICS<\/a>.\u201cThey’re the vowel between Russia and China (in BRICS). If that’s who you want to be, go be it. But either support the dollar, support the United States of America, support your biggest client, who is the American consumer, or I guess you’re going to pay a 50% tariff. And let’s see how long this lasts,\u201d he said.
On re-negotiating the trade deal with India, he said that the United States is always willing to talk. \u201cThe Chinese sell to us. The Indians sell to us. They’re not going to be able to sell to each other. We are the consumer of the world. People have to remember, it’s our $30 trillion economy that is the consumer of the world. So eventually they all have to come back to the customer, because we all know eventually the customer is always right.\u201d
India, meanwhile, has consistently defended its purchase of Russian crude, stating that energy procurement decisions are guided by national interest and market realities.<\/p>\n

Trump on Friday re-affirmed that he and Prime Minister Narendra Modi<\/a> would always be friends, asserting that there is \u201cnothing to worry about\u201d and the two countries still share a \u201cvery special relationship\u201d.
However, he expressed displeasure over what “he (PM Modi) is doing” in contemporary times.
When asked by ANI,<\/i> “Are you ready to reset relations with India at this point?”, US President Trump said, “I always will. I’ll always be friends with (PM) Modi. He’s a great Prime Minister. I’ll always be friends, but I just don’t like what he is doing at this particular moment. But India and the United States have a very special relationship. There is nothing to worry about. We just have moments on occasion”.
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India is likely to apologise to Donald Trump and seek a deal with the President of the Unites States in a couple of month, US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on Friday.He also criticised India\u2019s decsion to buy oil from Russian oi, calling it \u201cridiculous,\u201d and said the New Delhi needs to decide which side it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":163346,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}