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For months, the world has looked on in stunned disbelief as the President of the global superpower descends into a spectacle of incoherence, arrogance, and outright falsehoods—behaviour as unprecedented as it is humiliating for any self-respecting American. The farce began after the pause in Op Sindoor, when Donald Trump brazenly fabricated claims that he had “mediated” to stop a war between India and Pakistan. He has repeated this lie endlessly, as if sheer repetition might turn fiction into fact. What clearly infuriated him was India’s refusal backed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to even acknowledge his delusions, except once, decisively, on the floor of Parliament, where the U.S. president’s claims were exposed as blatant lies. India made it unequivocally clear: no third party dictated its decisions. The pause was not capitulation, not an end but a calculated restraint that merely spared the enemy another lesson as punishing as the one delivered during Op Sindoor.
Donald Trump’s unravelling crossed into outright absurdity when he began threatening countries with tariffs so extreme and impractical that they exposed not strength, but desperation. India responded to this economic bullying with studied silence, refusing to dignify his empty threats or strong-arm theatrics. Trump began his tantrum with bluster about 25% tariffs, but when months passed and India neither complied nor cared, ignoring his self-appointed deadlines for a FTA, he escalated into farce, now floating an insane 500% tariff threat. India’s reaction remained unchanged: complete indifference. While a few weaker nations bent under his pressure, India’s calm, unyielding stance appears to have driven Trump into a visible frenzy. His conduct has become so erratic that he is now widely viewed as unstable, impulsive, and fundamentally untrustworthy. Any residual credibility the United States once enjoyed has been obliterated by Trump’s reckless and lawless actions, including his outrageous move against neighbouring Venezuela by seizing its sitting president and his wife. This brazen assault on every norm of diplomacy and international order has dragged America into yet another self-created crisis. After this, global trust in the United States lies in ruins and for a nation that once claimed leadership of the free world, no downfall could be more complete or more self-inflicted.
For decades, America has quietly pursued geopolitical destabilization across the world as an undeclared state policy to preserve its global hegemony. What sets Donald Trump apart is not the intent, but the shamelessness with brazen public declarations and open admissions that he is actively working against any country he dislikes. In doing so, he has ripped the mask off American hypocrisy and laid bare its obsession with domination. America continues to cling to its self-appointed role as the world’s policeman, even as the world increasingly rejects both its authority and its moral credibility. These reckless actions by a sitting U.S. president are steadily dismantling the image America once carefully cultivated. Emerging powers, including India, outright reject the very idea of American hegemony and firmly assert that every nation has an inherent right to grow, prosper, and allow its citizens to live without fear of coercion or punishment. Despite relentless bullying and pressure tactics, India’s consistent GDP growth stands as a quiet but powerful rebuke, marching ahead with confidence, dignity, and its head held high. What America painstakingly built over two centuries, Donald Trump appears determined to dismantle in just two years. Once a nation loses the trust of the global community, reclaiming it is extraordinarily difficult. And Trump is doing precisely that, methodically eroding trust and, in the process, dismantling America itself.
Future of the world no longer revolves around America; this is a reality the world already recognizes. The only ones yet to grasp it are America itself and Donald Trump, who remains trapped in the delusion that he can dictate terms to the world or control its course. In today’s volatile and fractured global order, what the world needs is not bluster or coercion, but the steady hand of a seasoned statesman. Leadership of the kind shown by Narendra Modi—measured, resolute, and forward-looking is far better suited to guide the world toward a more stable and equitable future. -Yugal Parashar

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Yugal Parashar, Editor, The Indian news