Tariffing India won’t end Ukraine war: US Democrats Panel says punish Putin

“Tariffing India won’t stop Putin,” the US House Foreign Affairs Committee of Democrats, the Democratic panel responsible for foreign policy legislation and oversight, said, differing with the Trump administration’s 50 per cent tariff move against India, and the warning of secondary tariffs if the Trump-Putin talks in Alaska failed.

The Democratic panel’s remarks come after US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned that the Trump administration could impose additional secondary tariffs on India, with the final decision depending on the outcome of a meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The panel also said that if President Trump really wanted to stop the Ukraine war, he should punish Putin and provide direct military aid to Kyiv.

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