‘Vampires sucking our blood dry’: Trump adviser Peter Navarro’s fresh rant against India, BRICS countries

Peter Navarro, Senior Counsellor for Trade and Manufacturing for US President Donald Trump, known for his anti-India vitriol, launched a fresh attack on the BRICS countries, calling them “vampires sucking our blood dry” with “unfair trade practices”.

 

Navarro’s fresh tirade came in an interview to ‘Real America Voice’, in which he claimed that the BRICS countries cannot survive if they do not sell to the US.

 

“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,” he said.

 

His remarks came shortly after the BRICS virtual summit hosted by Brazil on Monday. External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar represented India at the meeting, which discussed the trade disruptions triggered by Trump's tariff policy.

 

Navarro claimed that the BRICS countries cannot stay together, as historically they all “hate each other and kill each other”. He raked up the Russia-China and New Delhi-Beijing relations to drive home his point. 

 

“Russia is getting into bed with China. China claims they own Vladivostok- the Russian port, and they're already through massive illegal immigration into Siberia, basically colonising Siberia, which is the biggest landmass of the Russian semi-empire, so good luck with that, Putin,” he said.

 

“And then India, of course, is at war with China for decades. It was China that gave Pakistan a nuclear bomb. You got ships flying around the Indian Ocean now with Chinese flags. Modi, see how you kind of worked that out,” the Trump aide said, taking a veiled jibe at Narendra Modi’s recent show of camaraderie with Xi Jinping.

 

Navarro also targeted Brazil, saying the country’s economy is going down the tubes because of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s socialist policies.

 

“Well, they keep the real leader of that country in a cell. Let's see what happens," he said in the interview.

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