Even as inflation squeezes American households and budgets tighten, Trumps own financial standing has expanded sharply in his second term as President.

In the current world order, while hegemons can go it alone, everyone else is on the menu if they aren't at the table. That is the takeaway from Carney's speech, and that is what India needs to acknowledge as it tries to chart a course of its own.

Trump has, time and again, claimed that the United States helped defuse tensions between India and Pakistan