India, Feb. 2 -- In Davos last week, a justifiably unhappy Canadian Prime Minister, Mark Carney, delivered what can be read as the funeral speech for the post-Cold War (America-led) world order. Emphasising that it is a "rupture, not a transition", the banker-turned politician introduced a term that should resonate well with New Delhi's view of the world - variable geometry. Two days later, in his speech at the Bundestag, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz echoed his transatlantic counterpart's sentiment, declaring that Europe must learn the "language of power politics". When two of the world's most polite nations - Canada and Germany - start speaking the language of hard power and strategic autonomy, we are not too far away from the end of...