‘Vampires sucking our blood dry’: Peter Navarro hits out at BRICS alliance

“The bottomline is that none of these countries can survive if they don’t sell to the United States, and when they sell to the United States their exports, they’re like vampires sucking our blood dry with their unfair trade practices. Let’s see what happens,” he said.

The White House official further claimed that the BRICS alliance will not last since the member countries “all hate each other and kill each other”.

“But I don’t see how the BRICS stays together since historically they all hate each other and kill each other,” he said.

BRICS originally included Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. It expanded last year to include Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, and the United Arab Emirates, and Indonesia joined the alliance in 2025.

Navarro, who has increasingly trained his guns on India since Washington slapped 50 per cent tariffs on Indian goods, said that New Delhi has been at war with China for decades.

“And I just remembered, yeah, it was China that gave Pakistan a nuclear bomb. You got ships flying around the Indian Ocean now with Chinese flags. (Prime Minister Narendra) Modi, see how you kind of work that out,” the White House official said in a sarcastic jibe.

He then took a veiled dig at Russia-China ties stating that Moscow is “in bed” with Beijing.

Navarro claimed that China has its eye on the Russian port of Vladivostok and is already “colonising Siberia, which is the biggest land mass of the Russian semi-empire” through “massive illegal immigration”.

“So good luck with that, Putin,” he said.

‘Won’t end well’ for India, warns Navarro

Navarro further lashed out at India and issued a stark warning, suggesting that things “won’t end well” for New Delhi if it fails to “come around” at some point in trade negotiations with the United States.

He said that the Indian government has taken offence to his describing India as the “Maharajah” of tariffs.

“But it’s absolutely true. They have the highest tariffs in any major country in the world against the United States. We got to deal with that,” he said.

He claimed that before Russia’s war against Ukraine, India never bought oil from Moscow, “except for like little tiny drops of it.

“And then they go into this mode of profiteering with Russian refiners coming on to Indian soil and profiteering,” alleging that this forces the American taxpayers to give more money for the conflict.

Listing the “great” trade deals that the United States has inked with the European Union, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines and Indonesia, Navarro said “all these countries are working very closely with us” because they realise that they’ve been taking too much advantage of the United States and that they need the American markets.

“I think India must come around at some point. And if it doesn’t, it’s laying down with Russia and China, and that won’t end well for India,” he warned.

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