[stg22]

Indian firms are importing Russian crude oil at a discount, mixing it with crude from unsanctioned places, refining the mix and selling it for full price on the open market as unsanctioned oil.

New Delhi is confident the US is so desperate for an alliance against China, it can't afford to do anything about it.

That's also why it expects no serious repercussions for assassinating a Canadian citizen in Canada.

[frankharv]

They also took cocaine off Trudeau's plane during the G20 summit recently.

https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/india/ottawa-denies-report...

[m00x]

This was a diplomat joking about the claims from Canada that had no evidence. Canada said "We have credible evidence about India involvement murder of a Canadian citizen". The diplomat meme'd with "We have heard credible rumours of cocaine being on Trudeau's plane".

Then the joke got misrepresented either accidentally or purposefully for clicks.

[lesuorac]

> Former Indian ambassador to Sudan Deepak Vohra said on Monday there were “credible rumours” that “sniffer dogs found cocaine on his plane”, and that Trudeau “didn’t come out of his room for two days”.

I feel like there's a lot of holes here; wouldn't people notice Trudeau's 2 day absence from his 3 day visit to India?

Pretty sure India's ambassadors are as trustworthy as when Russia's said UK [2] bombed Nord Stream 2.

https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releases/2023/08/30/prime-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_G20_New_Delhi_summit

[2]: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-says-british-nav...

[killdozer]

You don't actually believe this given the recent issue between these two countries do you?

[reducesuffering]

They claimed that. I wonder why India might want to make up ridiculous claims about Canada recently, hmm...