New Delhi: Underneath the façade of being a messiah of freedom and democracy, the USA is selling terrorism and dictatorship on the earth, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) mouthpiece Organiser has mentioned in an editorial.

“Commerce wars and tariffs are new instruments of interference and undermining sovereignty,” the editorial mentioned within the backdrop of the Trump administration elevating tariffs on India to 50 %.

US President Donald Trump on 6 August imposed an extra 25 % tariff on India as a penalty for New Delhi’s continued buy of Russian oil. The duties are further to the 25 % tariff charge introduced earlier by Trump.

After the top of the world warfare, the editorial argued, “it was assumed that the liberal world order had triumphed eternally, resulting in the unfold of democracy, stability and peace internationally.”

Nonetheless, the state of affairs right this moment is “drastically totally different from our assumptions”, it says. The American unipolar world is in decline and the worldwide establishments just like the United Nations and the World Commerce Organisation proving to be irrelevant and inefficient, it argues.

“We’re witnessing commerce wars, pointless tariffs, sanctions, and regime change operations. The USA, self-proclaimed messiah of freedom and democracy, is selling terrorism and dictatorship,” it says.

“China is rising as a serious challenger to the present system,” it mentioned whereas underlining the nation’s “debt entice” and lack of “credible” secure establishments. “Russia-Ukraine Struggle, Israel-Hamas Struggle and Israel-Iran conflicts are the signs of this crumbling worldwide order—the clear signal of this crumbling world order—which was by no means orderly.”

The RSS has been silent over the Trump administration’s tariffs on India thus far, whilst its financial wing, the Swadeshi Jagran Manch, mentioned that no nation might “direct” commerce guidelines to a different nation in a multipolar world.

It additionally appealed to individuals to undertake ‘Swadeshi’ merchandise, urging them to boycott items from US-based corporations like Amazon, Walmart and Flipkart (wherein Walmart has a majority stake).

There’s a concerted try by “neo-colonisers” and their home brokers with vested pursuits to suppress the cultural resurgence witnessed by India in the previous couple of many years, the Organiser mentioned within the editorial.

“Actions like Surgical Strikes, Operation Sindoor, and steady assertion to make sure strategic autonomy by prudent international coverage choices are an emblem of the identical nationwide consciousness,” it mentioned.

“The forces in favour of the established order, pushed by vested pursuits, proceed to bully the world primarily based on financial and navy would possibly. The brand new assertive Bharat is a bête noire for them. They’re utilizing all of the neo-colonial machinations to suppress this intuition.”

For brief-term political pursuits, some gamers inside Bharat are appearing as brokers of neo-colonisers, it acknowledged.

“All proposed globalisations—whether or not American market globalisation, Islamic spiritual globalisation or ideology-driven Communist globalisation—are nothing however the types of colonisation imposing a one-size-fits-all strategy internationally,” it additional mentioned.

With a purpose to counter the challenges, it mentioned, India “must face the competitors and conflicts primarily based on the present parameters for which we have to be economically affluent, technologically superior and militarily self-sufficient”.

It additionally attracts a parallel between communism and capitalism, arguing that whereas the independence motion in India was primarily based on the beliefs of Swadharma, Swadeshi and Swaraj, “sadly, the elite of Unbiased Bharat misplaced their resilience and succumbed to the binary of capitalism and communism”.

(Edited by Ajeet Tiwari)

---

Additionally Learn: No possibility however to be highly effective in face of evil forces at our borders—RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat in Organiser

---