Trump to zero in on fragmenting BRICS, Ukraine to take back seat

 

TASS predicts:

Newly elected US President Donald Trump will focus his efforts on trying to undermine the BRICS organization, while the Ukrainian crisis will fade into the background, political scientist Boris Mezhuyev said at a round table conference of the Expert Institute for Social Research (EISR).

    I think that Trump’s primary adversary will be neither Russia nor China, but BRICS itself.

He will strive to fracture BRICS, to dismantle the emerging multipolar world order. He will do so with greater determination and more effectively than the previous administration,” Mezhuyev warned. He explained that President Joe Biden focused on strengthening the collective West, thus indirectly strengthening BRICS.

“There will no longer be such a task on the agenda. The looming challenge will be far more serious,” Mezhuyev emphasized.

The political scientist predicts that Trump will aim to increase US power worldwide.

“His policies will look to bolster American hegemony in key areas. Ukraine will not be a priority. There will be a new challenge for the world, for Russia, and for multipolarity,” Mezhuyev said.

In his opinion, Trump dreams of a new Cold War, this time against arch foe China.

“I reckon that he sees the main frontline of this war not so much in Ukraine as in Latin America and Southeast Asia. So I think there will be a turn in that direction. There will be attempts to oust China from Latin America,” Mezhuyev said.

According to the political scientist, in all likelihood attempts to replace the presidents of Brazil and Venezuela, and pit India, Russia and China against each other are coming.

“In other words, he will seek to fragment the world majority, to upset the emerging unity. This non-Western world would be taken down. This is what Trump’s strategy will look like. Everything else is a matter of tactics,” the political analyst said.