In his second term, US President Donald Trump has brought a fresh wave of disruption to the global order-an order already fraying under the pressures of geopolitical shifts, economic realignments, and the rise of multipolarity. His latest confrontations with the BRICS countries-Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa-signal not only a return to his combative foreign policy style but a deeper misreading of the world’s evolving power dynamics. In attempting to bully rising powers into submission, Trump risks accelerating the very transformations he seeks to prevent.

At the heart of this confrontation lies Trump’s fixation on the US dollar’s supremacy and his fear of the de-dollarization movement gaining traction. The BRICS bloc has long expressed its ambition to reshape the global financial and political architecture. No longer content with playing a peripheral role in institutions dominated by the West, the BRICS nations are laying the groundwork for a new global economic order-one less reliant on the dollar and more accommodating to the needs and aspirations of emerging economies.

The US response has been predictably aggressive. Trump’s administration has threatened sanctions, imposed steep tariffs, and issued repeated warnings to countries engaging in currency alternatives or trade mechanisms outside the dollar-dominated system. His rhetoric-at times accusatory and condescending-frames the BRICS cooperation as a direct challenge to US authority, treating their financial initiatives as subversive acts rather than legitimate moves to safeguard their own sovereignty.

The irony, however, is striking. It was the United States, under successive administrations, that pioneered the weaponization of the dollar. Financial sanctions-once........

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