American policies under the second Trump administration have caused political, economic, and social turmoil in the USA, and many other countries. India, had been, since the 1990s (when the country began to turn away from socialist economic policies), engaged a slow and gradual process of convergence with the USA in strategic and commercial terms, but it has been jolted by the aggressive tariffs and new trade barriers raised by President Trump and by the latter’s deliberate and open gestures in support of Pakistan, which contradict his previous signals and pronouncements. The war that began on 28 February 2026 with the joint US - Israeli attack on Iran has further clouded prospects for stable relations between the two countries.
