Six years after President Donald Trump upended global trade and rattled old alliances, the anti-American coalition known as BRICS is finding that its dream of reshaping world order remains as distant as ever, according to reporting from Breitbart News. The bloc—Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa—has spent years pitching itself as a counterweight to Western dominance, promising “inclusive global governance” that would give developing nations a bigger voice. But internal divisions and a lack of concrete results are undermining those ambitions.
A Dream Deferred
BRICS was founded in 2009 with high hopes of challenging the U.S.-led international system. Yet more than a decade later, the group has little to show for its grandest pledges. According to Breitbart’s analysis, the bloc’s push for alternatives to the dollar and Western financial institutions has largely fizzled. Member states remain deeply divided on major issues, from trade to security, and their economies are still heavily reliant on the very Western markets they claim to oppose.
The group’s annual summits produce plenty of photographs and joint statements, but few binding agreements. Critics note that BRICS has no secretariat, no formal charter, and no enforcement mechanism—making it more of a talking shop than a true alliance. “It’s a coalition of the unwilling,” one foreign policy analyst told Breitbart, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive diplomatic matters. “They agree on what they’re against—American power—but not on what they’re for.”
That internal friction has only grown as the bloc expands. Last year, BRICS invited several new members, including Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, in a bid to broaden its reach. But adding more voices with competing agendas has made consensus even harder to achieve. Saudi Arabia and Iran, for instance, are regional rivals with deeply opposing interests. India and China continue to clash over border disputes and influence in the Indo-Pacific.
The Trump Factor
President Trump’s return to the White House in 2025 injected new urgency into BRICS’ rhetoric. Trump has threatened tariffs on countries that seek to undermine the dollar and has pushed for a more transactional approach to trade. Breitbart reports that these moves have prompted some BRICS members to accelerate talks about de-dollarization—but progress remains halting. Russia and China have been the most vocal advocates for shifting away from the greenback, yet even they have been slow to adopt alternative payment systems at scale.
According to Breitbart, the Trump administration has viewed BRICS with a mix of skepticism and opportunism. Officials have pointed out that the bloc’s members often act against their own stated principles—for example, China’s human rights abuses and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine—while lecturing the West about multilateralism. The White House has also reportedly used BRICS’ internal contradictions to drive wedges between member states, offering bilateral deals to countries like India and Brazil.
“The anti-American dream is further than ever,” Breitbart’s analysis concludes, noting that six years after Trump first took office, the world has not moved toward a post-American order. Instead, the U.S. remains the indispensable power in global finance, security, and technology. The dollar still dominates international transactions. NATO has expanded. And BRICS, despite its boasts, has yet to produce a single transformative initiative.
What’s Next for BRICS?
The bloc is set to hold its next summit later this year, where leaders are expected to discuss expanding membership further and deepening ties with other emerging economies. But analysts say that without a clear agenda, another round of meetings is unlikely to change the fundamental dynamics.
Some BRICS members are already hedging their bets. India, for instance, has deepened its defense ties with the United States while remaining in the group. Brazil has sought closer trade links with Europe. South Africa, the smallest of the original five, has struggled to leverage its membership into tangible economic gains.
For the Biden administration and now the Trump administration, the challenge has been to manage BRICS without alienating its members entirely. The U.S. has encouraged countries to choose partnership with the West over alignment with China and Russia, offering incentives like infrastructure funding and security cooperation. That approach has had mixed results, but it has helped prevent BRICS from coalescing into a unified anti-American front.
According to Breitbart, the lesson of the past six years is that the anti-American dream is easier to sell than to build. “Inclusive global governance” sounds appealing in a press release, but it requires the kind of coordination and sacrifice that BRICS members have shown little willingness to make. Until that changes, the bloc will remain what it has always been: a symbol of discontent, not a source of solutions.
As the world watches BRICS’ next moves, one thing is clear: the gap between its rhetoric and reality is only widening. For the United States, that may be the best news to come out of the past six years of Trump-era foreign policy.
Source: www.breitbart.com — https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2026/09/15/after-6-years-of-trump-the-anti-american-brics-dream-of-inclusive-global-governance-is-further-than-ever/