White House trade adviser Peter Navarro sought to raise pressure on India to halt purchases of Russian energy after the U.S. imposed crippling new tariffs on New Delhi, casting the conflict in Ukraine as “Modi’s war.”

“I mean Modi’s war because the road to peace runs, in part, through New Delhi,” Navarro said Wednesday on Bloomberg Television’s Balance of Power, referencing Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Trump’s 50% tariff on Indian goods took effect earlier Wednesday, a bid to punish the country for continuing to buy Russian oil. It doubled the existing 25% duty Trump imposed earlier this month.

By purchasing Russian oil “at a discount,” Navarro said, “Russia uses the money it gets to fund its war machine kill more Ukrainians.” That, in turn, has taxed U.S. resources in the form

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