Palki Sharma tells RT India that policy is more a factor of mood swings in the Trump administration

Published 12 Jun, 2026 15:53 | Updated 12 Jun, 2026 16:55

 

The United States created the so-called “rules-based order,” but breaks it with impunity as those norms were always meant for “other people,” a popular Indian journalist has said.

 

Washington has always taken a capricious attitude towards complying with that system, Palki Sharma told RT India in the weekly ‘India, Russia and the world’ podcast.

 

“The US made the rules, but did the US follow those rules? I think it’s as mythical as the US Army fighting aliens in Hollywood films,” she said. “The US has always bent rules to suit itself.”

 

Sharma said the US remains the biggest military power in the world and its largest economy, and it is miles ahead of competitors in technological advancement.
 

 

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“What has cracked is this veneer of invincibility. The world has begun to entertain ideas that there could be an alternative,” she said.

 

“The dollar will remain the big currency for the foreseeable future. But the very talk of de-dollarization unsettles Washington,” she noted.

 

Whether the US acknowledges it or not, the wars it has entered “have shown them the limits of their military power.”

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“You can drop bombs left, right, and center and yet not win,” she said, citing the conflict with Iran, which “the US is losing as I see it.”

 

“The Americans thought that Iran will be a Venezuela. Iran is not a Venezuela. You cannot go and abduct their president or kill their president and then have the rest of the system succumb,” Sharma, whose show ‘Vantage’ is popular in India, said.

 

Iran has prepared for this eventuality for more than two decades, she said of the US-Israeli attacks on the country. Tehran is definitely bruised and battered, “but in terms of the political outcomes of this war, Iran has emerged stronger.”

 

She pointed out that India’s ties with Russia have stood the test of time. “The relationship with Russia has endured because there is a [level of] maturity,” she said.

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The rise of China as a dominant force can’t be wished away, she said. “There is no other manufacturer like China that can deliver on the scale at which China does,” Sharma said.