New Delhi, July 5 -- In 2026, regime change has become a leading American export, as Nicolas Maduro and Iran's leadership can affirm. Cuba could be next and the Trump administration's threats to Panama and Greenland remain credible.

On the 250th anniversary of its Declaration of Independence, the US looks very different from the country that then-US Secretary of State John Quincy Adams imagined on 4 July 1821.

"Wherever the standard of freedom and Independence, has been or shall be unfurled, there will [America's] heart, her benedictions and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all."

Adams extolled the foundational principles of that Declara...