New Delhi, Aug. 20 -- White House trade advisor Peter Navarro, once known by his books as a China hawk, has taken aim at India in aFinancial Times op-ed published on Monday that reads like a diatribe. India funds Russia's Ukraine War, the article contends, by buying Russian oil, refining it, shipping refined products abroad and funnelling the dollars so earned back to Russia for yet more crude supplies.

And where does India get these dollars to buy Russian oil?

From unfair trade with the US, of course, liberally exporting goods to America while denying market access to American goods with high tariffs and non-tariff barriers, thus running up a bilateral trade surplus. He accuses Indian refiners of being profiteers with silent Russian pa...