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"safeguard the interests of the Indian consumer in a volatile energy scenario." "Ensuring stable energy prices and secured supplies have been the twin goals of our energy policy," "This includes broad-basing our energy sourcing and diversifying as appropriate to meet market conditions. Where the US is concerned, we have for many years sought to expand our energy procurement,"

For months, Donald Trump has presented himself as the very incarnation of a global peacemaker, touting an ever-changing list of international conflicts that he claims to have settled. Sometimes it has been six, sometimes as many as ten. "I ended seven wars," the President told the U.N. General Assembly last month, "and in all cases they were raging, with countless thousands of people being killed," which was not true but has not stopped Trump from repeating it.

Gor, one of Trump's closest aides who currently serves as the director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office, will oversee frosty relations with New Delhi. Bilateral ties have soured over the planned doubling of US tariffs on goods from India next week. Gor will also serve as a special envoy for South and Central Asian affairs, the US president confirmed.