In a world of disorder, PM Modi's military policies are crucial to maintain

The presumption in some political quarters is there are benefits to a zero-sum game. That there can be only one winner.

- PETER DASH

For example, the weaker America and the West are, the better off much of the rest of the world is and will be. India emphasises differently, seeing the world as a family but with security eyes wide open.

With an inclusive approach led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India has a practical membership in the Quad security dialogue with the US and its allies, Australia and Japan. It also has cooperative military exercises with France as seen with FRINJEX last March. This is all while being in BRICS with Russia, from which it has procured arms.

Therefore, geopolitically weak and/or misdirected US and US allies, too often, do not likely make the Quad stronger for Indian interests in a major sense. So, nonsensical, blanketing anti-Americanism is not positive for the Modi government. Rather, it wishes for a more sustainable peace globally and supports America's contributions to such, with India continuing to help. That is a win-win.

But there are indeed some hard-inescapable realities to deal with. Quad partner Washington and most of its ally followers have been so much on the wrong path, so long that trouble is geopolitically more brewing and foreseeable, no matter how well India tries to encourage differently. For example, America is actually too often internally weak and divided, increasingly in its key decision-making in Congress.

Matters are so bad that President Biden is unsure about his country's own democracy (and stability?), well above growing worries about democracy globally with some exceptions-India being one. So much of this has a spillover to the extent that US partners feel Washington is reliable even on security matters.