Today marks the start of the 16th BRICS summit which is taking place in Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia. Discussions, decisions and agreements made over the next few days will change the geopolitical underpinnings of our world. The nations of the global south and Eurasia, those nations whose populations compose the global majority have chosen a different path from those of the collective west. That collective west, with its wars, its sanctions and constant interference in their affairs, is being brought to a condition of being quarantined as the mad dog of our world. The aim of BRICS is uninterrupted peace where trade can find the stability to bring nations together, free of the intolerance and aggression the West appears unable to extricate itself from.
There was never any need for the western powers to act as they did. The self-interest and avid desire to 'have it all' is now about to drive it into increasingly indebted isolation. For centuries the nations that comprise the West have sought only to exploit the weaker nations of the world to their continual benefit. BRICS is the result of an international backlash against all those centuries of economic abuse. Slowly but surely the nations the western powers exploited have combined together to resist the power and influence of the West. The process is ongoing and unstoppable at this stage. However, when the political stewards of the West finally have the courage and faith to acknowledge that all nations have a right to inalienable sovereignty they too will be gladly welcomed to the fold.
China has made enormous strides over the last thirty years in building her economy. Russia, on Vladimir Putin’s watch, has done the same over the last quarter of a century. Alongside these within the BRICS group India has also made great gains in this respect also. Now the entire African continent is poised for something similar. In general the nations of the global south, Middle East and in Latin America are tending to gravitate toward the BRICS group, i.e. to link up with Brazil, Russia, China and India. Nations that joined the group in recent times are Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.
What is the purpose of the BRICS group?
The BRICS group was formed to enhance ease of trading between its members in an atmosphere of non-interference, equality, and mutual benefit.
Up to forty countries including Algeria, Bolivia, Indonesia, Cuba, Democratic Republic of Congo, Comoros, Gabon, and Kazakhstan have expressed interest in joining the forum. The BRICS group has a bank embedded within its structure, the New Development Bank.
The latest primary goal of the BRICS group of nations is to increase the use of local currencies when trading. Currently the vast majority of trades are conducted in dollars due to stability, reliability and efficiency factors. The move away from the dollar is seen as necessary however as its use leaves countries open to economic blackmail and sanctions unilaterally applied by the USA, unaccountable to any universal law. The nations seeking to improve their trading networks and to get out from under the threat always held over them by the USA are therefore seeking in increasing numbers to join the BRICS group.
The political elites of the USA, naturally enough, see the above as a threat to their global dominance and are using a variety of methods including sanctions and even the use of the U.S. military to oppose, and if at all possible, to weaken the group.
Inherently bound up with the BRICS group is the concept of multipolarity where power is shared by all nations rather than as it has been up till now, dominated by one nation and its allies, that nation being the United States of America.
At the fall of the Soviet Union and with China still a relatively poor nation compared to the western powers, the USA found itself at the apex of power worldwide in what has become known as the ‘Unipolar Moment’. At this time it was believed that the USA, exercising its newfound and virtually unlimited power, would transform the world in its own image.
The advent of 9/11 and the reaction of the USA’s political elite to it brought into being an extremely powerful dynamic to minimize the power of all potential enemies and, where they deemed it necessary, to eliminate them completely. Thus began a campaign that continues to this day focusing on target nations, among whom are Russia, China, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Venezuela, Nicaragua, North Korea and Cuba, some of which are BRICS nations of prospective BRICS nations.
Instead of fighting, along with its allies, to maintain its dominance over all others and in doing so first fragmenting the world, and then presumably knitting it all back together again under its sole command, is there perhaps not another, better way, to proceed? Essentially, all that needs to happen to achieve that alternative of a well-balanced, multipolar world is that the USA, UK and their allies stand down in their attempt to halt that process. This by somehow or other developing greater insight into the lack of harm in the long term to them, the destructiveness of their current policy, and into the beneficial effects of what will happen if they do this. Currently they are living in the past of former glories with a paranoid filter before their eyes thinking that others will behave as they have done to this point and begin to treat them as enemies.
The very worst thing that is likely to happen in the short term is that their economic prospects will suffer to a degree. You might think that is bad enough and a good enough reason to keep pushing an aggressive, warlike stance against the rising powers of Russia, China and the rest. However, how much of the thinking going on among western elites is projection, that the Russians and Chinese those aligned with them will do to them what they would like to do to those they regard as enemies?
Is there really any reason to believe that the Russians or the Chinese want to act as global cops as the western powers have done for so long now? It is quite clear that their present behavior indicates a very different approach based upon a high degree of tolerance for diverse systems of governance and an absolute minimum of anything approaching an ideological stance. Their concentration is on coming to agreements that create the stability required for increased trade.
If the USA, UK and EU dropped the idea that they are the indispensable nations and that collectively their duty is to force all other nations to mirror them, the world would
It is certain that from this point onward we would see the newly-formed multipolar world embracing the new, non-aggressive US, UK and EU gladly within its trading network as members fully signed on to maintaining a tolerant ethos worldwide. From this point onward the valuable expertise and ingenuity of the North American people could reach new heights within a new and far more balanced, stable and peaceful world, as opposed to instigating wars that constantly fragment it.
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