To paraphrase a famous adage, 'cometh the hour, cometh the man', now it is 'cometh the man, cometh the mayhem.' It has been a year since the Trump 2024 Presidential inauguration, and, to put it bluntly, it has been blackmail time ever since.

International order, as understood since World War II, has been threatened. 'Reciprocal tariff', or just tariff, is the polished word for coercion. The import tax on a Harley-Davidson has become the leitmotif of acknowledging India's friendship. And, if you are a Ukrainian, seeing your country getting 'sacrificed' by a nation that had supported you all along, must be heartbreaking - just because of a carrot called the Nobel Peace Prize!

"Give me Greenland, or else I'll remember?" - such language was last heard, besides at Davos, in a street corner exchange. But the Washington........

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