Let’s unpack this carefully.
1. The Pattern Is Not Accidental
- Canada–China engagement, despite security tensions
- Australia–China reset, after years of strategic hostility
- Bharat–Germany deepening alliance, beyond symbolism into manufacturing, defence, and green tech
- EU–Bharat FTA, pursued with unusual urgency
These are not isolated diplomatic gestures. They reflect a systemic hedging behavior by middle and great powers.
The message is clear:
“We will not put all our eggs in the American basket anymore.”
2. Why the US Is Unintentionally Creating Multipolarity
(a) Overuse of Sanctions as a Weapon
The US turned the dollar, SWIFT, and trade access into coercive tools. This worked—once.
Now it has triggered:
- De-dollarization efforts
- Local currency trade
- Alternative payment rails
- Strategic autonomy doctrines (EU, Bharat, ASEAN)
Power, when weaponized too often, teaches others how to live without it.
(b) Alliance Fatigue
Traditional allies have learned that:
- US administrations change every 4 years
- Policy continuity is no longer guaranteed
- Domestic politics now dictate foreign commitments
So nations hedge—not against America, but against American unpredictability.
(c) Strategic Myopia: “With Us or Against Us”
The post-Cold War moral binary no longer works:
- Bharat refuses bloc politics
- EU wants strategic autonomy
- Australia wants security and trade
- Canada wants values and market access
The world has moved from ideology to interest-based diplomacy.
3. Bharat’s Role: The Quiet Axis Power
Bharat is not forming an empire. It is becoming an axis around which multiple poles rotate:
- Trusted by the West, not subservient
- Engages China, without surrender
- Part of QUAD, yet trades with Russia
- Democratic legitimacy + civilizational continuity
This makes Bharat uniquely suited to a post-hegemonic order.
Germany understands this. So does France. So does the EU bureaucracy.
4. Multipolarity Is What the US Feared—but Also Needed
Ironically:
- A unipolar world made the US complacent
- Multipolarity forces restraint, negotiation, and realism
- It reduces proxy wars and regime-change temptations
The US strategic community knows this—but domestic politics prevents long-term thinking.
5. What Is Emerging Is Not Chaos—but a “Civilizational Balance”
This is not Cold War 2.0.
It is closer to a 19th-century balance of power—without empires, with economics replacing armies.
- Trade corridors > military bases
- FTAs > ideology
- Supply chains > spheres of influence
6. The Core Irony
The United States feared a multipolar world because it meant loss of control.
But control was never sustainable—only leadership was.
By choosing coercion over consensus, dominance over diplomacy, it accelerated the very future it fear.
The new world order is not being announced—it is being assembled quietly, deal by deal, corridor by corridor.
History will likely record this period not as America’s fall, but as the end of American singularity—and the beginning of a far more complex, negotiated world.

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