As Trump Threatens BRICS, It Grows Stronger
The Global South-led organization BRICS has been growing in size and influence, and this has frightened some Western politicians.
Donald Trump is particularly rattled. After he returned to the White House for his second term as US president, Trump threatened very high tariffs on BRICS, and falsely said he had destroyed the organization.
“BRICS is dead”, Trump claimed in a press conference on 13 February. The US president stated:
BRICS was put there for a bad purpose, and most of those people don’t want — they don’t even want to talk about it now; they’re afraid to talk about it.
Because I told them, if they want to play games with the dollar, then they’re going to be hit with a 100% tariff, the day they mention that they want to do it. And they will come back and say, “We beg you, we beg you not to do this”.