NEW DELHI, Jan. 27 -- During the last 30-plus years that I have been writing this weekly column, I have chosen to write on foreign issues only very rarely. I decided to make an exception this week as reports from the United States of America (USA), hereinafter mentioned as the US, suggest that the country has become imperial and its 47th President an imperialist.

Let me make a disclosure at this point. I had never been an admirer of President Donald Trump, neither now nor when he was the 45th President. However, I cannot deny that his return to power is in the realm of the unimaginable. Four years ago, who would have believed that he would return to power with greater public support? I nursed the thought that the much-wisened Trump would...