In a hard-hitting interview with The Times of India’s Aditi Prasad, economist and public policy expert Jeffrey Sachs delivers an unflinching critique of Donald Trump’s trade wars, BRICS unity, and shifting global power dynamics. Calling Trump’s tariff strategy “delusional,” Sachs argues it has unintentionally strengthened BRICS, with China, Brazil, India, and Russia mounting stronger resistance than the EU or Japan — proof, he says, that the U.S. can no longer “run the show” in world affairs.
Sachs also dissects Trump’s proposal for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska, framing the Ukraine conflict as essentially a U.S.–Russia war fueled by American money, weapons, and NATO support, with Ukraine and Europe reduced to bystanders. He further accuses the U.S. and Israel of committing genocide in Palestine and flatly rejects the notion of awarding a Nobel Peace Prize to anyone complicit in such actions.
