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MAGA and BRICS

February 1st, 2025 | Tags: commentary Dickson Igwe BRICS MAGA
Dickson C. Igwe
By Dickson C. Igwe

The Virgin Islands best understand that World is in a dangerous place. The doomsday clock has moved closer to midnight. The reason is that the election of Donald Trump has moved USA to the right politically and socially. However, the rise of China and BRICS has been checkmating for the USA’s power dreams. China will take Taiwan shortly and the USA may miscalculate and make a military move in the Pacific. It will be a terrible mistake.

Yes! War may be on the horizon. Preceding World War 2 was the rise of right wing fascism in Europe. The rightward shift in US politics has emboldened reactionaries in Europe, right wing populists, and more extreme types such as racists and xenophobes. Fascists, imperialists and strongmen have driven war and conflict for decades. 

Donald Trump is mercurial and unpredictable. Fascist leaders share that prototype. The world may have entered an era of strongman impunity with the election of Trump. Impunity and fascism are dangerous political cultures that have led to war in past centuries. Autocracy, impunity, and great power competition, led to World Wars 1 and 2. 

In spite the talk of a China that wants to dominate the world, nothing is further from the truth. Apart from its rightful claim to Taiwan, China appears uninterested in great power rivalry and it is willing to play a secondary role to an extent. China has not been in a war for over 40 years. 

China is a relatively cautious and peaceful country. Unlike the west, the Chinese Confucian Culture prioritizes peace and wisdom. China has been the victim of aggression more than it has been an aggressor. China is more interested in maintaining a good standard of living for its vast population through technological and industrial progress, than war and geographic expansion. 

The USA with Donald Trump appears to be the polar opposite with claims on Panama, Greenland and even Canada. 

5 Responses to “MAGA and BRICS”

  • 911 (01/02/2025, 10:32) Like (6) Dislike (1) Reply
    Another great read
  • Conjecture for Policy (01/02/2025, 17:37) Like (4) Dislike (4) Reply
    You appear to conflate Trump’s characteristic bravado with a coherent policy framework, while naively interpreting China’s measured rhetoric as a lack of imperial ambition. Trump’s remarks about Greenland and Panama were, at best, opening bids in a larger strategic game. China’s intentions toward Taiwan, however, are neither ambiguous nor benign, and to rationalize their aggression as a historical right is not merely careless but intellectually indefensible. Your analysis, draped in the fashionable pretense of moral relativism, indulges the fallacy that Western actions are inherently predatory while those of non-Western powers are invariably noble. This is the same myopic indulgence that once excused Islamist expansionism, permitting the rise of ISIS and similar barbarous enterprises under the guise of historical grievance.
    • resident (02/02/2025, 11:08) Like (1) Dislike (1) Reply
      basically for us laymen you are saying he doesn't know what he is talking about, especially about china and taiwan
      • Yes (02/02/2025, 15:41) Like (0) Dislike (1) Reply
        and his observation are viewed through a racial prism - western countries i.e white always malevolent with ulterior motives , Other Countries i.e Non White benevolent always doing good with no motives other than helping others. It is sophomoric and naive
  • E.Leonard (02/02/2025, 08:59) Like (14) Dislike (0) Reply
    China has intentions of becoming the #1 power in Asia and in the world. But it is patient, discipline, taking the long view, in its pursuit. Its goal, strategy is through a “peaceful rise” through economic growth, power, and influence. China knows it needs imports and exports on its march to building a market economy, working towards its aim of dislodging the US as the #1 economy and power,.


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