India’s interaction with Putin is also a direct message to the EU, with which New Delhi is renewing its vows. The recent G7 summit in Biarritz, France, made it clear that the EU needs fresh leadership. Germany’s Angela Merkel is no longer the voice that Europe and the world listen to. Host and French President Emmanuel Macron was on a war of words with his UK counterpart Boris Johnson. Italy has already broken the EU’s lakshman rekha by signing trade deals with China, and Japan, like Canada, follows rather than leads the G7. Trump wants the EU to bring Russia back to the G7, making it the original G8, an idea that has made others, especially Merkel, balk. Scars of the world’s bloodiest wars run deep.