US journalist Rick Sanchez said it was a "cataclysmic moment" when India refused to stop buying Russian oil despite US' tariff threat. "I still believe historians will...look back and say, 'That's when...'power that was' started to truly decline and the new power came to be'," Sanchez said. "That 'no' started dismantling of...[post-World War II Europe-US power] system," he added.