NEW DELHI, March 17 -- The Trump-Zelenskyy meeting has raised ripples across the world. International diplomacy is going out the window, and we are moving towards a much more fragmented world than one could have imagined a few decades ago. The world was once thought to be moving towards globalisation, where national and international boundaries would increasingly blur if not outright vanish. However, the general trends speak otherwise.

The sudden blowup in the Oval Office was the most heated public exchange of words between world leaders in memory. The usual staid diplomacy descended into finger-pointing, shouting, and eye-rolling. The encounter has left the future of the US-Ukraine relationship and Kyiv's ability to defend itself in the...