At a roundtable held by the Expert Institute for Social Research (EISR) in Moscow on Friday, political analyst Boris Mezhuyev suggested that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will concentrate on disrupting the BRICS coalition, sidelining the ongoing Ukrainian crisis. Mezhuyev was quoted by Tass as saying:
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,” the analyst asserted.
According to Mezhuyev, this contrasts with President Joe Biden’s policies, which “focused on strengthening the collective West, thus indirectly strengthening BRICS.” Mezhuyev stressed: “There will no longer be such a task on the agenda. The looming challenge will be far more serious.”
Mezhuyev predicted Trump would pivot U.S. foreign policy to intensify American influence globally. He remarked, “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.”
The expert also outlined Trump’s likely vision of a Cold War, stating: “I reckon that he sees the main frontline of this war not so much in Ukraine as in Latin America and Southeast Asia.” He continued:
So I think there will be a turn in that direction. There will be attempts to oust China from Latin America.
“In all likelihood, attempts to replace the presidents of Brazil and Venezuela, and pit India, Russia and China against each other are coming,” he cautioned. Summing up his analysis, Mezhuyev concluded: “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.”