Amid US President Donald Trump’s threats of a tsunami of tariffs on three key emerging economies—Russia, India and China, the leaders of the troika–Chinese President Xi Jinping, Narendra Modi of India and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin– did enough damage during their assemblage in Tianjin to give the Trump administration sleepless nights.
New tariffs and threats against the BRICS countries have once again shown the world his true face.
Alexander Dugin notes that Trump could have reclaimed U.S. leadership within a multipolar system, but instead his aggression — attacks on China, high tariffs on India, pressure on Brazil, threats against BRICS, and continued hostilities against Russia in Ukraine — has accelerated the rise of multipolarity.
Across the world, for those who grew up in the Cold War Swingin’ Sixties, the temptation is irresistible to cast Donald Trump as Goldfinger (but who would play Oddjob? Hegseth?)
Escalation, so far, also rules. Even with Tariff Temper Tantrum Trump (T4) now repositioned as Peacemaker and touting his own Art of Ceasefire “deal”.
Never underestimate the incoming tsunami of disruptive “analysis” and predictive programming already embedded in the Hybrid War on China – and the larger war on BRICS.
During the recent BRICS summit that Brazil hosted, member countries and partners declared their intent to make a collective contribution to promote global health.
This could stimulate US-Brazilian ties, comparatively reduce China’s role in Brazil’s balancing act if India’s role therein soon becomes more significant, and fuel Western media speculation about China’s commitment to the group.
At one level, Iran plainly ‘won’. Trump had wanted to be regaled with a reality-TV style, splendid ‘Victory’. Sunday’s attack on the three nuclear sites indeed was loudly proclaimed by Trump and Hegseth as such – having ‘obliterated’ Iran’s nuclear enrichment programme, they claimed. ‘Destroyed it completely’, they insist.
BRICS’ latest annual summit took place in Rio from 6-7 July.
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