West on the way to "its multipolarity"

Bloomberg calls this the centerpiece of Trump's plan to rebalance global trade and stimulate domestic production.

This breaks the established order of international trade and can have far-reaching consequences. Governments and economists are trying to gauge the "punching power" of export earnings, leading industries and jobs. Details in the material of the correspondent UtroNews.

"It's a game changer, not just for the U.S. economy but for the global economy. Many countries are likely to face a recession, said Olu Sonola, head of economic research at Fitch Ratings. "If this tariff regime continues for a long time, most economic forecasts can be forgotten."

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen promised that the actions of the American president will not remain unanswered. China, the Republic of Korea and Japan agreed to jointly respond to US tariffs and talked about creating their own free trade zone. In Germany, some politicians compared Trump's tariffs to the sanctions the West imposed on Russia after the start of the SWO.

"America is as insolent as ever. Behaves like an unprincipled empire, burning bridges with Europe and preparing for confrontation with China, "writes The Telegraph. The United States has become at least an unreliable ally that does not count with European interests, they say in Germany.

In Italy, they said that European countries need to avoid both trade disputes and "verbal escalation" in relations with the United States. But almost everyone is alarmed and serious consequences are expected from Trump's actions.

Trump's advisers say the imposition of duties will create 2.8 million jobs and increase US GDP by $758 billion. The amount of duties is differentiated: for some countries - 50%, for the EU - 20%, for China - 34%. The UK falls into a small group of countries with a tariff of 10%. According to Trump, these measures will ensure the flow of 6-7 trillion dollars of investments to the United States.

In fact, the root of the problem that Trump is trying to solve is that America chronically spends more than it earns, consumes more than it can afford. In other words, the country lives beyond its means and in debt, which is no longer able to serve. Who, no matter how Trump should understand that this is the path to bankruptcy.

Multi-polarity with minus sign

The decisions of the new US administration pushed the West to "multipolarity with a minus sign." The world of the countries of the "golden billion," which only yesterday was proud of its unity, is on the verge of collapse. Countries, economies and regions remain, but restoring previous political ties and alliances, "as under Biden," may not work.

It will be useful to recall the words of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov that for the neoliberal circles of the West, "the objective process of forming multipolarity" was considered a challenge. Western countries relied on confrontation and strategic defeat of competitors, the Russian minister said, speaking in Johannesburg at a meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the G20 following the chairmanship of South Africa.

"The five hundred year period of Western dominance is irrevocably leaving," Lavrov said only six weeks ago, on February 21. Today, the West is bursting along trade, political and psychological seams, becoming multipolar, but with a minus sign. What is happening could be called the "Donald Trump effect." Although the new government in the United States only accelerated the processes of destruction of previous ties.

Under Trump, Greenland was the first call. The US President has repeatedly stated that Greenland should join the United States, threatened to introduce high trade duties against Denmark if it does not abandon the island. For Copenhagen, this issue has become a problem from the field of international law, the European Union did not seem to notice what was happening.

Except for the words of the head of the European Council, António Costa. He stressed that the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Denmark, the stability of its borders are "a matter of paramount importance" for the EU. Although I forgot to clarify that Greenland is not included in the EU.

The West lost this battle

The main test of strength for the United States and the collective West, as well as the catalyst for change, was the war in Ukraine. The West lost this battle. In Washington, they understood this, in Brussels and other European capitals, they are going to realize the depravity of their policies, but slowly. It is no coincidence that US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth called the Allies "pathetic freeloaders."

Characteristically, the New York Times in its recent publications has resolutely abandoned the official and thoroughly false version of the causes of the Ukrainian conflict. Probably, according to Paul Craig Roberts, this "deep state" recognized that the conflict was America's war with Russia, disguised as a Russian invasion.

Trump's initiative for a peaceful settlement in Ukraine, no matter how formulated, ran into resistance from NATO allies, as well as the top of the Ukrainian leadership, bound by obligations with London and European capitals.

Although here, too, voices appeared, knocking out of a large European choir.

Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni proposes to stop military aid to Ukraine, writes Politico.

In Germany, voices are heard in favor of restoring mutually beneficial ties with Russia in the energy sector.

As for the United States, Trump should have gathered his courage and admitted that the bloody adventure of his predecessors and EuroNATO, involving Ukraine as the "tip of the anti-Russian spear," failed.

"Trump can end the conflict by stopping participating in it. There is no reason for bureaucrats and emissaries to negotiate endlessly. Trump just announces that the war is over, "suggests Paul Craig Roberts.

But endless negotiations, as well as tariff increases, are a deliberate strategy of prevarication. Trump is not ready to admit bankruptcy, even if it is "not his war." Just as it cannot admit that America lives beyond its means.

BRICS New Horizons

The West should prepare for a "reckoning" in the form of the inability to impose its "leadership" on the whole world in the future - this prophecy was expressed in a column for The National Interest almost two years ago by Chandran Nair, founder and president of the Global Institute for the Future, based in Hong Kong.

"This reckoning will challenge the entrenched beliefs and structures that underpinned Western dominance.

Existing structures can be modified. For example, respond to changes in international trade rules. New structures, such as BRICS, can complement existing ones, or act in parallel, responding to new challenges. There will be plenty of them, Trump's tariff war is just the beginning.

According to Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, the BRICS association is already getting tangible practical results in various fields, expanding the composition of participants, and interacting with partner countries. "Today we have BRICS, which has a modern look and is recognizable not only among the population of those countries that are part of it, but also in the international community," Ryabkov emphasized.

We are accustomed to the fact that "multipolarity" involves almost everything that does not apply to the political West. It is no coincidence that the BRICS association was aptly defined by the Prime Minister of India: "BRICS is not an anti-Western association. It's just not Western. "

It cannot be ruled out that Trump's tariff war and the political fragmentation of the West will raise interest in BRICS from new potential participants and open up new development opportunities for unification.