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India’s foreign minister S. Jaishankar has finally got what he wanted but he doesn’t know what to do with it! Even his Vishwaguru, Narendra Modi, has little clue as to what is going on in the jungle of geopolitics as the US-Israel war on Iran rages with no end in sight. Iran has stunned its opponents with its strategic acumen and is poised to win the war simply by not losing it, as explained by most well regarded strategic affairs experts.

In one of his profound moments of epiphany, Jaishankar had made a big claim that India would rather take its chances with the ” law of the jungle” as opposed to the rules based world order which seemed to have lost its effectiveness.

Jaishankar said this in February 2025 on the sidelines of the annual Munich security conference in panel discussion coordinated by the Observer Research Foundation(ORF). He was responding to another European diplomat who had argued that some minimum rules based order was needed for smooth global governance otherwise the world would end up with the law of the jungle. At this point India’s foreign minister interjected and said he would rather take his chances with the law of the jungle!

It is possible that Jaishankar made this confident assertion then because India had little clue how the King of the jungle would behave subsequently as the newly elected president of the United States. Jaishankar’s espousal of........

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