New Delhi, Aug. 28 -- Well known economist Richard Wolff believes the United States has "shot itself in the foot" while "trying to act like a tough guy" by doubling tariffs on India. Speaking to Russia TV host and journalist Rick Sanchez, the professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, felt that Donald Trump's move has made BRICS the front-runner to be a counter economic bloc to the west.

Sanchez posted the interaction on social media platform X (formerly Twitter), writing, "Trump tried to bully India into ditching Russia - India is not budging, and why should they? Why should the US dictate who you can buy oil from? Watch the legendary economist Richard Wolff eviscerate the U.S. economic policy."

Asking Wolff for his...