The oil producers joining BRICS will definitely have a big impact in geopolitics, without exageration, this is the end of the petrodolar.
Honestly I hope the BRICS bank does come to fruition. China has already done a lot for the developing world and an alternative for the IMF which doesn't require implementing neoliberal policies would benefit many counties.
Argentina and Iran were pretty much a done deal, and Saudi Arabia was a maybe but i didn't expect Egypt so soon, and Ethiopia was the most positive surprise of all. This has the potential to do a ton of economic good for Ethiopia and i am really happy for them, they deserve a win after the hard times they've been having recently fighting against their US backed rebels.
Saudi Arabia has switched so damn fast my neck cricked
They want to be like Turkey and play both sides for their own advantage. In a period of prolonged great power confrontation hedging your bets like that can be very profitable. But it's hard to pull off, it's a delicate balancing act that carries with it inherent risks and requires that you have something that is vitally important to both sides. Turkey has its strategic location, the Saudis have their oil, so both sides of the new cold war have to put up with their opportunism. But if you're unimportant and weak you will not be allowed to sit on the fence, you will be forced into one of the two camps which is what happened first to Ukraine which was not allowed to be the middle man between Russia and Europe, and now on a larger scale to all of Europe which has been forced by its imperial masters in Washington to break their lucrative economic relations with Russia, and in the future may again be forced to do the same with China. Obviously the Saudis do not want to be put in such a position of humiliating subservience that forces them to self-harm and go against their own interests.
This makes a lot of sense, thank you for analysis
India and china Saudia and Iran Brazil and Argentina Ethiopia and Egypt Damn
The willingness to put aside differences…
It just goes to show…
How much the whole world fucking hates the US.
Iranian: never thought I'd die side by side with a saudi...🤔
Saudi: how about side by side with an anti imperialist? 😊
(I know theyve tried to stress BRICS is not about anti imperialism or combatting US hegemony, but what you say versus what you're doing in practice well...)
The question of openly opposing G7 was iirc at least stated on this summit. And many statements points straight on opposing USA without naming it.
Change BRICS to Belt and Road Initiative Community of States maybe.
That's kind of a weird club, ngl
Invited not admitted.
now get in socialist africa, BF, niger, angola ect
i see bear, sic!
This one
I warned you I meant what I said – it's a bear – if you get your leg eaten, that's on you.
Slipknot
Can any comrades give us the equivalents in non-Latin alphabet? Curious to see if any other meanings float to the surface in characters, Cyrillic, or abjad.
برازيل روسيا هند الصين افريقيا الجنوبية ايثوبيا السعودية ايران أرجنتينة الامارات مصر
ب ر ه ص ف ث س ا أ ا م
هامس بأثر صاف
Whispering a clear sign/ruin, had to seperate it into three words
That's poetic!
LOL map in original post shows independent Taiwan and Ukrainian Crimea
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