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The fact that India buys oil from Russia is not new, but it is not what I wanted to emphasize in the thread. What I wanted to emphasize was the European Union making a fool of itself by buying more expensive Russian oil from India.
What does the US have to say to the EU now for buying Russian oil from India? Or is it just going to blame India and turn a blind eye to the EU?
Once the oil is refined in to diesel, it will be impossible to know about it's origin. And here, the situation is further complicated by the fact that the two oil companies who have purchased huge amounts of oil recently (Nayara Energy and Reliance Industries) also import a lot of oil from Iraq and Saudi Arabia. So they can always claim that the diesel they sell to the EU is sourced from Iraqi crude. After all, it is same substance with the same chemical composition coming from different oil wells. There is no 100% accurate method to find out how many molecules came from Russia, and how many came from Iraq.