Jaishankar Feels US Will Be More 'Isolationist' Irrespective Of Trump Or Harris Win. Here's Why

The United States is likely to become more isolationist regardless of who becomes its next president, said External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday. The External Affairs Minister, while speaking at an event in Canberra as Americans were still casting votes, said that "the election was unlikely to reverse" what he called a long-term trend in US Policy."Probably starting from President Barack Obama the US has become much more cautious about its global commitments," Jaishankar said, while pointing to a US reluctance to deploy troops and its withdrawal from Afghanistan under President Joe Biden."President Trump may be more articulate and expressive in that regard," he said as per Reuters, during a panel discussion with the foreign ministers of Australia and New Zealand."It is important to look at the United States more nationally than purely in terms of the ideology of the administration of the day," Jaishankar added."If we are truly analysing them, I think we have to prepare for a world where actually the kind of dominance and generosity which the US had in the early days may not continue," he said.Jaishankar's remarks came amid the 2024 US Presidential Election, which is witnessing a close contest between Vice President and Democratic candidate Kamala Harris and her Republican opponent, former President Donald Trump. Both candidates have left no stone unturned in their efforts to win over voters. Meanwhile, earlier on Tuesday, Jaishankar said that India's relationship with the United States would only grow in the future. All three foreign minister said their nations needed to step in to create th global environment they wanted.Jaishankar said, "We all have an interest today in creating some king of collaborative consensual arrangement.""There is more protectionism. The world we were once trying to build on is changing, and we'll have to react and change with it," said New Zealand's Winston Peters.(With inputs from Reuters)