India a big boy, not schoolchild: US analyst slams Trump tariffs

US decision to impose tariffs on India for purchasing Russian oil is a “disrespectful and ignorant policy”, American journalist and political commentator Rick Sanchez and host of the ‘Sanchez Effect’ on Russia Today. He asserted, “India is a big boy, not a schoolchild.”

He further said when New Delhi conveyed that the US could not tell from where to buy or not buy oil from, it was such a “cataclysmic, transformational moment”.

He said Donald Trump sometimes made decisions based on “grudges and non-scientific thinking”, and that India had been “very smart to hold its ground”.

In an interview, Sanchez said the US decision on secondary tariffs was “extremely preposterous in the eyes of most people” and amounted to treating India like schoolchildren who need to be told what to do. “It's a disrespectful and ignorant policy of the Trump administration.”