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Budget 2026 is a business-as-usual exercise that increases some outlays, announces some new schemes, corrects some duty perversions, contains the fiscal deficit, and undertakes to devolve resources recommended by the Finance Commission to states. It gets a thumbs up by normal standards.But these are not normal times. We are experiencing what Mark Carney at Davos called a rupture in the global order. Trump has demolished old certainties about geopolitical alliances and enmities. No erstwhile US ally - European, West Asian or Asian - can count on Marines rushing to their rescue in the event of hostilities that, just a year ago, would have triggered intervention by the world's most powerful military. Every nation is scrambling to enhance its capacity to defend itself.While never an ally of th

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