Bangladesh, Aug. 3 -- In his second term, US President Donald Trump has brought a fresh wave of disruption to the global order-an order already fraying under the pressures of geopolitical shifts, economic realignments, and the rise of multipolarity. His latest confrontations with the BRICS countries-Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa-signal not only a return to his combative foreign policy style but a deeper misreading of the worlds evolving power dynamics. In attempting to bully rising powers into submission, Trump risks accelerating the very transformations he seeks to prevent.

At the heart of this confrontation lies Trumps fixation on the US dollars supremacy and his fear of the de-dollarization movement gaining traction. ...