It's sad that they were duped but hopefully this experience has taught them a lesson.

I still think the US debt is meaningless. Don't see why they would need to do austerity regardless how big the debt is. If they do implement austerity, which they may at some point, it won't be because of the debt but because they have decided it is in their advantage to do so. Austerity is a means of disciplining the working class. It's for beating us into submission so we come begging to capital for scraps.

It's still a precarious situation but with this law now passed at least they have backed off a couple of steps away from the ledge.

This is from last year. Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia, and the UAE have already joined. Argentina is definitely not going to join as long as that clown Milei is president, and frankly that's a good thing for BRICS.

The rest may well come sometime down the line, and in fact i was a bit surprised that Algeria wasn't among the new 2024 members. I am a bit skeptical about Thailand since it is getting pulled more and more into the US's orbit. Morocco also i have serious doubts about. And Nigeria could go either way... up until now they have been closely aligned with the West, but the trend in West Africa at the moment is toward countries reasserting their independence from colonial powers and Nigeria may eventually start hedging their bets just like the Saudis.

So basically everything you need for a war. Except the propaganda, i guess. They seem to have that at least on lockdown.

What's most interesting about articles like this is that this is not some leftist alternative media publication or some fringe pro-Russia pundit, it's a mainstream conservative (though they claim they are not neocons but "realists") US imperialist think tank that has for decades been deeply embedded into the US foreign policy establishment, founded by Nixon and formerly chaired by war criminal Henry Kissinger.

It shows the clear cracks in the imperialist state that there is now this deepening divide between the current leadership of completely fanatical neocons like Blinken and Nuland who are growing increasingly detached from reality and the "old guard" establishment who still have some semblance of sense and are trying desperately but futilely to steer the ship of empire away from the abyss it is sailing into.

I mean you have Jake Sullivan telling Hillary Clinton in an email that "Al Qaeda is on our side in Syria", you have ISIS fighters getting medical treatment in "Israel" and not one ISIS attack ever (deliberately) targeting the Zionist entity, and oh yeah, Wikileaks who have never gotten something like this wrong directly saying that the CIA created ISIS:

Edit: Oh and then you also have this:

This is pretty big news and deserves much more than the scant coverage it has gotten so far. Ecowas is one of those organizations whose main role has become that of a tool to facilitate control of a region for neo-colonialism. This is a big L for the West, they have lost three entire countries. I wouldn't be surprised if in the coming years we also see similar exits out of other regional organizations (such as OAS in Latin America) which are part of Washington's hegemonic system.

They have done this a lot. You just usually don't hear about it. But this is one of the main reasons why westerners are still so delusional and believe the absurd Kiev regime claims about their interception rate of Russian missiles and drones. Because anyone who photographs or films the impacts or the damage gets almost immediately arrested since the Kiev regime is desperately trying to hide the success of Russian strikes and the utter failure of western AD systems. So the pro-Ukrainian propagandists are able to use the scarcity of footage to give the impression that Ukraine is doing better than they are. They are terrified that if the true picture starts to emerge western support will drop even faster than it is now. And they are probably right.

Nobody said that. You are the one trying to bring Brazil into this, despite this dispute having nothing to do with Brazil. Brazil simply put out boilerplate "we urge all parties to remain calm" type statements. There is nothing wrong with that.

How, via séance?

No.