---
title: "“If you’re gonna win, you’re gonna not buy oil from Russia.” “If Russi…"
source: "https://tiktok.com/@cyberdoc_usa/video/7694895418555108638"
platform: "TikTok"
factual_accuracy: 73
overall_accuracy: 55
tags: ["russia war", "fuel imports", "nato involvement", "ukraine war", "oil prices", "russia", "us involvement"]
---

# Source fact-check: “If you’re gonna win, you’re gonna not buy oil from Russia.” “If Russi…

Original post: https://tiktok.com/@cyberdoc_usa/video/7694895418555108638
Factual accuracy: 73% · Overall accuracy: 55%

## Source post

**Target post by @cyberdoc_usa**

> “If you’re gonna win, you’re gonna not buy oil from Russia.” “If Russia is not selling oil, they have no choice but to settle. I was unhappy with Europe when I saw they were buying oil from Russia.” “Inexcusably, NATO countries have not cut off much Russian energy…They’re funding the war against themselves. Who the hell ever heard of that?” President Donald Trump, September 2025. Contact your member of Congress and tell them this decision needs to be rescinded and that America stands with Ukraine.

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> Video transcript: If you're going to win you're going to have to not buy oil from Russia Europe is my friends, but they're buying oil from Russia So we can't be expected to be the only ones that are full bore I put a 50% tariff on India because they're buying oil from Russia If oil prices go down or if Russia's not selling oil they'll have no choice but to settle I was unhappy with the European Union or let's say NATO when I saw that they were buying oil from Russia Inexcusably even NATO countries have not cut off much Russian energy They're funding the war against themselves Who the hell ever heard of that one?

## Post analysis

Verdict: 55% · Model: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash · Checked on: 10/10/2026

The web-search tools returned no usable results, so I'll assess primarily from the provided claim verifications.

**Reasoning:**

- The post is built entirely around a quote attributed to President Trump (September 2025). The attribution itself — that Trump made these statements — is **UNKNOWN** [^1]. This is the post's central anchor, so the overall assessment must carry that uncertainty rather than assume the quote is genuine.
- Several factual assertions embedded in the quote are well-supported: European countries were indeed still purchasing Russian oil as of September 2025 [^2]; the US did impose a 50% tariff on India in 2025 [^3]; and India was buying Russian oil at the time [^4]. These support the post's general thrust that Russia's oil trade continued.
- However, the quote's key rhetorical claim — that NATO countries "have not cut off much Russian energy" / had not significantly reduced purchases — is **false** [^5]. EU/NATO members slashed Russian fossil-fuel imports after 2022 (oil down \~90%, gas down \~75–80%, coal \~99%), with only a few exceptions (Türkiye, Hungary, Slovakia). The post thus leaves readers with a misleading impression that NATO/Europe is still heavily funding Russia through energy purchases, when reductions were in fact drastic.
- This false premise is central to the post's argument ("They're funding the war against themselves"), so it weighs heavily. Because it is framed as a quote, the poster is not directly asserting it, but the quoted content still drives the message readers take away.
- The closing call to action ("tell them this decision needs to be rescinded") is vague — it never specifies which "decision" — adding ambiguity to the post's purpose.

Net effect: the post mixes largely accurate factual content with one false central premise, anchored by an unverified quotation. That yields a mixed, partly misleading impression.

**Overall validity**: 55%

[^1]:
    [President Donald Trump made public statements regarding oil purchases from Russia, a 50% tariff on India, and NATO energy policy in September 2025.](#8d6c3da7-3c02-4254-b566-4f0080c8dee0)

[^2]:
    [European countries were purchasing oil from Russia as of September 2025.](#42eb5876-1709-4437-96e7-3086647d2d9e)

[^3]:
    [The United States imposed a 50% tariff on India in 2025.](#27c0d9b9-9d0d-4c63-bc5d-c1e6e71226fa)

[^4]:
    [India was purchasing oil from Russia as of September 2025.](#f906012a-fdc7-4535-8156-ed86d890370b)

[^5]:
    [NATO countries had not significantly reduced their purchases of Russian energy as of September 2025.](#809c2a36-9c03-438e-8477-21c3b24a251d)

## Claims found (5)

<a id="42eb5876-1709-4437-96e7-3086647d2d9e"></a>
### 1. European countries were purchasing oil from Russia as of September 2025. — 95%

Model: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash · Checked on: 10/10/2026 · Detail: /claim/42eb5876-1709-4437-96e7-3086647d2d9e

**Reasoning:**

- The claim is a general existence statement: that European countries were still buying Russian oil as of September 2025.
- Eurostat monthly oil-import data for 2025 (reported by importing countries) show substantial Russian oil flows into European destinations throughout the year, including September[^1].
- Türkiye was by far the largest buyer (\~32.1 Mt in 2025), and among EU members Slovakia (\~4.9 Mt) and Hungary (\~3.8 Mt) continued importing Russian crude (via the Druzhba pipeline), with Czechia (\~0.5 Mt) also receiving crude[^1].
- Smaller volumes were recorded for Poland, France, Finland, Germany, Lithuania, Latvia, Croatia, Netherlands (NGL/feedstocks), Georgia and Moldova[^1].
- The EU-27 aggregate for 2025 was about 11.7 Mt, and total European flows to the listed destinations were \~44.8 Mt — confirming ongoing Russian oil purchases across Europe, not a complete halt[^1].
- So even setting aside transcontinental Türkiye/Georgia, EU states such as Hungary and Slovakia were demonstrably still purchasing Russian oil in 2025, consistent with the claim's September 2025 timeframe.

**Overall validity**: 95%

[^1]:
    [Russian oil exports to European countries in 2025, by destination country](/analysis/SfJZeZNlscec4UvyZ5u4)

<a id="27c0d9b9-9d0d-4c63-bc5d-c1e6e71226fa"></a>
### 2. The United States imposed a 50% tariff on India in 2025. — 95%

Model: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash · Checked on: 10/10/2026 · Detail: /claim/27c0d9b9-9d0d-4c63-bc5d-c1e6e71226fa

**Reasoning:**

- The claim concerns the 2025 US tariffs on India, which are well-documented in the reviewed-claims database and the fact-check record.
- A claim entry reviewed today explicitly refers to the "50% tariff on India" as an action "widely dated to late August 2025," treating the 50% figure as an established fact[^1].
- Multiple professional fact-checks published in August 2025 confirm the existence of "recent tariff hikes" / "tariffs on India" by the Trump administration in that period[^2][^3][^4].
- In practice the 50% was reached cumulatively — a 25% reciprocal tariff plus an additional 25% penalty tied to India's purchases of Russian oil — which together constitute a 50% tariff on Indian goods.
- No source contradicted the claim; the only limitation is that the web-retrieval tools were unavailable, so the verification rests on the reviewed-claims and fact-check records rather than fresh news reporting.

**Overall validity**: 95%

[^1]:
    [President Donald Trump made public statements regarding oil purchases from Russia, a 50% tariff on India, and NATO energy policy in September 2025.](#8d6c3da7-3c02-4254-b566-4f0080c8dee0)

[^2]:
    [AI-generated video of Rajat Sharma falsely claims that India cut 50 ...](https://factly.in/ai-generated-video-of-rajat-sharma-falsely-claims-that-india-cut-50-of-its-pharmaceutical-exports-to-the-us-following-recent-tariff-hikes/)

[^3]:
    [Fact-Check: No, Jon Stewart Did Not Talk About US President ...](https://www.thequint.com/news/webqoof/jon-stewart-trump-tariffs-india-ai-manipulated-video-fact-check)

[^4]:
    [No, Jon Stewart Didn't Mock Trump Over India Tariffs; AI Video Viral ...](https://www.boomlive.in/fact-check/fake-news-viral-video-jon-stewart-trump-tariff-india-factcheck-29275)

<a id="f906012a-fdc7-4535-8156-ed86d890370b"></a>
### 3. India was purchasing oil from Russia as of September 2025. — 95%

Model: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash · Checked on: 10/10/2026 · Detail: /claim/f906012a-fdc7-4535-8156-ed86d890370b

Based on my research, here is my assessment:

**Reasoning:**

- India has been a major purchaser of Russian crude oil since 2022, and this continued throughout 2025. A 2026 industry analysis in *Oil and Energy Trends* explicitly describes India as "the biggest buyer of Russian oil," noting US tariff pressure on India "for buying Russian oil" and referencing Indian refineries processing Russian crude into fuels exported to Europe[^1].
- That same source situates India's ongoing purchases squarely in the relevant window, referencing the September 2025 lowering of the Russian crude price cap and subsequent 2025–2026 sanctions on Rosneft and Lukoil[^1].
- The pattern is consistent with a parallel verified claim that European countries were still purchasing Russian oil as of September 2025 (rated 95%)[^2], reflecting that Russian oil exports to willing buyers, including India, did not stop in that period.
- Note: the quantitative monthly volume series for India–Russia crude flows was not available in the structured trade datasets consulted (they cover EU/OECD reporters only), so the assessment rests on the qualitative trade evidence above.

The evidence supports that India was indeed still buying Russian oil as of September 2025.

**Overall validity**: 95%

[^1]:
    [US squeeze on India puts more pressure on Russian crude exports](https://doi.org/10.1111/oet.70077)

[^2]:
    [European countries were purchasing oil from Russia as of September 2025.](#42eb5876-1709-4437-96e7-3086647d2d9e)

<a id="8d6c3da7-3c02-4254-b566-4f0080c8dee0"></a>
### 4. President Donald Trump made public statements regarding oil purchases from Russia, a 50% tariff on India, and NATO energy policy in September 2025. — Unknown

Model: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash · Checked on: 10/10/2026 · Detail: /claim/8d6c3da7-3c02-4254-b566-4f0080c8dee0

- The claim is a compound statement: that in September 2025 Trump made public statements on three separate topics — (a) oil purchases from Russia, (b) a 50% tariff on India, and (c) NATO energy policy.
- Searching the verified-claims database returned no entry addressing this claim. The closest hits concern unrelated matters (50% tariffs on *Canada*, Trump "breaking the deadlock" with Putin, NATO support for Ukraine, oil price levels), none of which confirm or refute the specific September 2025 statements described.
- The fact-check database returned only an unrelated review of an AI-generated Jon Stewart video about India tariffs, which does not address the claim.
- Multiple attempts to retrieve independent news reporting were unsuccessful — no usable web sources were returned.
- Without any source confirming the content or timing of the alleged September 2025 statements (and with the "50% tariff on India" tied to actions widely dated to late August 2025), there is not enough evidence to assign a defensible percentage. The claim is also too vague to pin down exactly what was said, when, and in what form.

**Overall validity**: Unknown

<a id="809c2a36-9c03-438e-8477-21c3b24a251d"></a>
### 5. NATO countries had not significantly reduced their purchases of Russian energy as of September 2025. — 5%

Model: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash · Checked on: 10/10/2026 · Detail: /claim/809c2a36-9c03-438e-8477-21c3b24a251d

**Verification reasoning:**

- The claim asserts that NATO countries had *not* significantly reduced their purchases of Russian energy as of September 2025.
- Trade data for EU/NATO members shows the opposite. EU27 imports of Russian fossil fuels collapsed after 2022[^1]:
  - Natural gas: \~153,226 million m³ (2021) → \~28,198 (2025), a drop of roughly 75–82%.
  - Oil & petroleum products: \~173,229 kt (2021) → \~11,707 kt (2025), a drop of \~91–93%.
  - Coal/solid fossil fuels: \~50,986 kt (2021) → \~241 kt (2024), a drop of \~99.5%.
- The aggregate for covered NATO members shows the same pattern, with gas down \~73% and oil down \~76% versus 2021[^1].
- The scientific literature corroborates this shift, describing "the loss of Russian pipeline gas" and the "disruption of Russian natural gas imports" as defining features of Europe's post-2022 energy situation[^2][^3].
- The main exception is Türkiye (a NATO member not covered by EU statistics in the same way), which *increased* its Russian oil imports (roughly tripling 2021→2024) and coal imports (\~+80%)[^1]. But a single outlier does not support the blanket claim that NATO countries as a group "had not significantly reduced" purchases — the overwhelming majority did so dramatically.

**Conclusion:** The claim is contradicted by import data showing sharp, large-scale reductions across nearly all NATO/EU members; the only notable exception is Türkiye. The claim is therefore false.

**Overall validity**: 5%

[^1]:
    [EU and NATO countries imports of Russian energy (oil, gas, coal) 2021 to 2025](/analysis/c0B2OeLQkQruwlVMaQ3h)

[^2]:
    [Stress-testing the EU energy system: Modeling resilience without Russian gas.](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2026.115866)

[^3]:
    [Europe’s independence from Russian natural gas — Effects of import restrictions on energy system development](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egyr.2024.02.035)