There are wars that begin with missiles and those that begin with memos. Donald Trump’s latest economic offensive belongs firmly to the second category. A 500% tariff threat on India—embedded in the so-called Sanctioning Russia Act of 2025—is not merely an escalation of sanctions policy. It is something larger, and far more destabilizing: an undeclared […] The post Trump’s 500% tariff threat is undeclared war on Global South appeared first on Asia Times .