Amorim accuses Trump of demolishing world order with war after tariff hike

Ambassador Celso Amorim, advisor for international affairs to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT), accused US President Donald Trump of demolishing the world order that was established until he was re-elected in the United States last year.

The attack was carried out amid the country's advancing offensive against Iran since the weekend , which, in his view, is a reflection of the successive decisions that Trump has been adopting against multilateralism in the world.

“What I see today is an attack on the world order, it’s over. There is no longer a world order in terms of peace and security and trade. [...] Everything is resolved bilaterally with the United States, this ends the multilateral system. Everything the United States did at the end of the Second [World] War is being demolished,” said Amorim in an interview with GloboNews this Monday (23).

Celso Amorim says that the United States' entry into a conflict that was restricted to Israel and Iran is a "continuous demoralization of the international system" that, in his view, was already occurring in relation to trade. For the ambassador – one of Lula's main advisors – Trump violated the United Nations (UN) charter that prohibits preemptive attacks, and is taking other countries along with him.

Although he believes that the conflict will not become widespread as occurred with the first two world wars, Amorim states that this conflict has great potential to spread beyond the Middle East.

“It will inevitably end up involving other countries, I don’t know how it will be in each one. But this is not an issue that will remain as if it were an attack on another. [...] This has enormous potential to spread,” he pointed out.

The ambassador, however, said he does not expect the two largest nuclear powers on the planet – the United States and Russia – to use their major weapons against their allies. But he stressed that the two main ongoing conflicts – Israel against Hamas and Russia against Ukraine – are strongly linked to each other.

He still sees it as “very difficult” for diplomacy to resolve the war between Israel and Iran, but believes that, despite the conflict and the dismantling, the BRICS countries can emerge stronger.

“Certainly, one can also have the side, within this negative thing, of encouraging the BRICS to propose a new, fairer world order,” he added.

The United States officially joined Israel last Saturday (21) in attacking three nuclear facilities in Iran , in addition to giving an ultimatum for the government of the ayatollahs to negotiate a nuclear disarmament agreement. However, the country reacted and promoted new attacks on Israel and American military bases in the Middle East since then.

As a result, the Brazilian government accused the United States of violating “Iran’s sovereignty and international law” and accusing the country of putting Iranians at risk of leaking radioactive material onto the population.