<p>The Indo-US relationship is collapsing and it might be the best thing to happen to India in 500 years. While Washington lectures Delhi about democracy, India is quietly playing a very different game.</p><p>In this episode, I explain why America's "with us or against us" demands are backfiring, how declining empires always behave when threatened, and why India's refusal to submit marks the end of Western hegemony.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>What I discuss:</strong></p><ul><li><p>How Spain, Britain, and the USSR collapsed and why America is next</p></li><li><p>The Arthashastra playbook Chanakya wrote 2,000 years ago</p></li><li><p>Why India and China reclaiming 40% of global GDP is a return to historical norms</p></li><li><p>Strategic autonomy in action</p></li><li><p>Germany's fatal mistake and what India must learn</p></li><li><p>How civilizational patience beats imperial panic </p></li><li><p>Why this breakdown isn't a crisis but India's graduation to true independence</p></li></ul>