India, Nov. 11 -- The fact that there are no permanent friends or foes in international relations could not be exemplified better than by Trump 2.0's tariffs targeting the friends, allies, and foes of the US alike. The global trade war of 2025 has sown seeds of uncertainty that no farmer, Indian, American, Chinese, Brazilian, Mexican, or of any other nationality could have anticipated. Donald Trump's "America First" tariffs, albeit slapped hypocritically and without any logical basis, were meant to claw back manufacturing jobs and to shrink the American trade deficit. As reciprocal duties bite back, agriculture, the lifeblood of many countries' rural economies, has become collateral damage. From shrimp trawlers in Kerala to soybean silos ...