President Donald Trump has jeopardised decades of American efforts to bring India away from Russia and China, his former aide John Bolton has said, pointing to the hefty tariffs that the US has imposed on India for buying Russian oil.

In a desperate bid to arrest the rapid erosion of US imperialism’s global economic and geopolitical power, Trump is threatening, bullying and attacking Washington’s ostensible allies, no less than those it has long identified as its strategic adversaries.

Russian oil companies are redirecting shipments of Urals crude from India to China after U.S. President Donald Trump imposed new tariffs on New Delhi over energy cooperation with Moscow, Bloomberg reported on Aug.