L ike national interests, major geopolitical churnings at the global or regional levels are not, by and large, susceptible to frequent change. However, this truism has surprisingly met its Waterloo in the past three years, with several kinetic conflicts around the world transforming an otherwise consistent geopolitical landscape in unexpected ways.

Arguably, 2025 will go down in history as the year of unprecedented turbulence. Few strategic analysts, think tanks, security experts and government functionaries could have anticipated this disorder, primarily attributable to the waywardness of one man—Donald Trump—the president of the sole but decaying superpower of the world, the USA.

It is common knowledge that many of Trump’s policies are harmful to his nation, as acknowledged by those w

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