In yet another display of Washington’s anxiety over a shifting global order, US President Donald Trump’s senior trade advisor, Peter Navarro, lashed out at the BRICS alliance, describing its member nations as “vampires” feeding on America’s markets through “unfair trade practices.”
Speaking on the Real America’s Voice show, Navarro argued that BRICS economies could not survive without selling to the United States.
“They’re like vampires sucking our blood dry… let’s see what happens,” he declared, while insisting that the grouping was bound to collapse because its members “all hate each other and kill each other.”
Washington’s Hegemony Meets Multilateral Reality
BRICS, which began with Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, has grown rapidly in recent years, adding Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, the UAE, a nd most recently Indonesia in 2025.
The expansion underscores the world’s tilt toward multilateralism, directly challenging Washington’s decades-old dominance over global trade and financial systems.
Yet Navarro, in a sweeping attack, questioned the very survival of the bloc. He targeted India, noting its tense history with China and sarcastically remarking on Beijing’s military and nuclear ties with Pakistan.
He also mocked Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s handling of Chinese influence in the Indian Ocean.
Turning to Russia, Navarro suggested that Moscow’s partnership with Beijing was fragile, warning that China had its eyes on Russian territory, including the port of Vladivostok, and accused Beijing of “colonising Siberia” through mass migration.
Targeting India With Threats
Navarro reserved some of his sharpest rhetoric for New Delhi. He warned that things “won’t end well” for India if it failed to “come around” in trade negotiations with Washington. He derided India’s high tariffs, calling the country the “Maharajah of tariffs,” and alleged that New Delhi was profiteering from cheap Russian oil since the Ukraine war.
His remarks came even as he touted the “great” trade deals the US had signed with the EU, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, and Indonesia — countries that, according to him, had realised the importance of the American market and adjusted accordingly.
“I think India must come around at some point. And if it doesn’t, it’s lying down with Russia and China, and that won’t end well for India,” he cautioned.
The Larger Picture
But Navarro’s fiery rhetoric reflects something deeper: Washington’s struggle to cling to its global hegemony in a rapidly changing world.
For decades, threats, coercion, and persuasion were tools the US wielded to secure compliance from allies and adversaries alike. Yet the rise of alternative power centres, regional blocs, and economic groupings like BRICS has made it increasingly clear that the unipolar moment has passed.
As BRICS nations consolidate trade in their own currencies, expand energy corridors, and strengthen south-south cooperation, the US’s old playbook of dominance through intimidation appears less effective. Washington’s attempts to paint rivals as divided and weak may mask the reality that multipolarity, not unilateral hegemony, defines the new era of global politics.
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