India, May 17 -- What has become crystal clear to India is that the United States, regardless of who occupies the White House, remains fundamentally unreliable when it comes to India's core interests.

In his address to the nation on 12 May 2025, Prime Minister Narendra Modi articulated a decisive shift in India's approach to national security. This shift has been building since the surgical strikes in 2016 but was unmistakably demonstrated through Operation Sindoor-targeted military action against nine terror sites in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and Pakistan, and the action that followed. This operation was India's calibrated response to the horrific Islamist terror attack in Pahalgam, where 26 people were killed after religious profiling....