Winds of change.

Change of leadership in the United States is beginning to show its shade across the world. Splitting atoms from his isolationist predecessor, the Biden Presidency has vowed to reassert its (soft and hard) influence beyond its borders. How effective will post-Trump America be at the international stage, is yet to be seen. However, with the rise of China and Russia in the East, it is unlikely that Washington will enjoy the kind of hegemony over global power-politics that it had gotten used to since the fall of the Berlin Wall.

But even if America is unable to reclaim the heights of its past glory in global politics, its influence will not be ignorable in the foreseeable future. Especially for countries and governments that had hitched all their bogies to Trump's bandwagon-i.e. Netenyahu's Israel, Modi's India, and Mohammad Bin Salman's Saudi Arabia.

Let's parse this claim further.

The 'Howdi Modi' and 'Namaste Trump' campaign has already hit unavoidable pitfalls. Biden's campaign statements on Kashmir, coupled with a sudden interest of the State Department in India's human-rights abuses concerning Sikh farmers, Dalits, and immigrants, has gotten the Modi-Shah-Doval trio spooked. Talk of creating 'akhund Bharat' has been replaced by Yoga lessons. Hate-spewing speeches against Indian Muslims have been substituted by a more inclusive stance about minorities. Internet and media connectivity is gradually returning to Kashmir. And, having suffered loss of life and land at the hands of China, with no Biden support in sight, the Indian Army has decided to observe the 2003 ceasefire agreement at the Line of Control with Pakistan.

In Israel, the talk of Abraham Accords-through which the Muslim Middle East was going to recognize Israel, by stepping on the graves of Palestinian martyrs-has all but disappeared from public media. Netanyahu's own future, in terms of criminal charges and reelection, is uncertain to say the least. Without Jared Kushner and Trump pulling strings behind the scenes, it is unlikely that Netanyahu will be able to hang on to his Zionist brand of politics for too long. And those who signed on to the Abraham Accords are already ruing their decision of betting on Trump. For the UAE, the 'unwritten' condition of Abraham Accords-concerning sale of F-35 Raptors by the US to the UAE-is already being 'reconsidered' by President Biden. Dealing an even deeper blow, President Biden has started to re engage Iran, without bringing Israel, UAE...