The Entire World Order Has Changed

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It was Jim O’Neill, Goldman’s chief economist at the time, who coined the term BRICS in 2001 for Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. Little did he know. He was talking about emerging economies. 13 years later, they no longer are. They are good for about 40% of the world population, and some 25% of global GDP. The world has not stood still since 2009, and it’s moving faster now.

Ironically, the BRICS countries never looked to be as prominent economically as they are today, they were happy to build up one step at a time. But then NATO decided to move east at a pace that Russia found intolerable, and now the BRICS have taken on a whole new meaning. 25% of global GDP may not seem that much, but the 5 countries hold a much bigger share of -essential- global resources and/or raw materials than that, and China moreover delivers an outsize part of finished products.

And we now know that they won’t be BRICS for much longer. Many countries choose to be affiliated, in one form or another, with the BRICS rather than the “west”. They see that Russia is winning in Ukraine, and they see the damage the sanctions do. It’s just practical considerations. Saudi Arabia and Argentina are interested in joining BRICS. So are Uruguay, Iran, Egypt, Thailand, and a number of post-Soviet States. They see where the real economic power resides.

It’s amusing to see that for this week’s G7 in Germany, the host country has “invited the leaders of India, Indonesia, Senegal, Argentina and South Africa to the summit..” They will not join the G7 instead of the BRICS. Why would they? The world is moving away from unipolar US/NATO power. And as Russia and China have repeatedly said, this move is irreversible. It’s all because of what happens in Ukraine. The west is losing militarily AND economically. Look at where the ruble is. We were “promised” it would dissolve, but it did the opposite.

The US became the no. 1 world power because it had the oil. Now, it has some left, but it has to use energy-intensive processes to produce it. Russia does not. Nor does Saudi Arabia, which therefore has no reason to stick to the petro-dollar system. They’re better off with the BRICS, which moreover plan to introduce a resource-based basket of currencies, which could benefit the Saudis greatly. The world is being rearranged rapidly, a process mightily accelerated by Russia’s special operation in Ukraine.

And NATO can’t even keep up militarily. From Scott Ritter today: “Ukraine is requesting 1,000 artillery pieces and 300 multiple-launch rocket systems, more than the entire active-duty inventory of the U.S. Army and Marine Corps combined. Ukraine is also requesting 500 main battle tanks — more than the combined inventories of Germany and the United Kingdom“. Another headline: “Czech Republic Has Exhausted Its Arms Reserves Supporting Ukraine, PM Reveals”.

Perhaps even more telling is that last week, Ukraine’s President Zelensky addressed the African Union in a virtual session, and only 4 out of 54 invited African Heads of State attended (plus some lower ranked folks). They don’t care about what they see as a European conflict, they don’t believe it’s all Putin’s fault (because: sanctions!), and they won’t commit to a potentially losing side. They have bigger fish to fry at home. Look for many to become a BRICS member.

 

Africa Is A Hostage Of Russia’s War On Ukraine, Zelensky Says

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called Africa “a hostage” of Russia’s war during an address to the African Union (AU) on Monday. Russia’s invasion, and its blockade of Ukraine’s grain exports, have sparked grain and fertiliser shortages and put millions of people at risk of hunger. The chair of the AU commission said there was an “urgent need for dialogue” to restore global stability. Western countries have urged Russia to release Ukraine’s vast grain stores.


The blockade has sent food prices soaring. “Africa is actually a hostage… of those who unleashed war against our state”, Mr Zelensky said in his speech. He said his government was engaged in “complex negotiations” to unblock grain reserves trapped in Ukraine’s Black Sea ports. “This war may seem very distant to you and your countries,” he told the AU. “But the food prices that are catastrophically rising have already brought [the war] to the homes of millions of African families.”

I think it’s priceless that the BRICS countries took O’Neill’s term and ran with it. In 2016 the BBC said: “Brics ‘grew more than I thought’, says Jim O’Neill”. And so last week we had the 14th BRICS Summit. They are now -arguably- more powerful than the G7, they indeed ‘grew more than I thought’. Unlike in our present -post-WWII- economic system, there is not ONE leader, it’s multipolar. The best of everyone, for everyone. That sounds very idealistic, obviously, and at some point China may try to control it all, like the US does today, but right now that is not the case.

 

Putin Suggests Way Out Of Global Economic Crisis

The West’s selfish attempts to blame the entire world for its own mistakes have led to the global economic crisis, Russian President Vladimir Putin insisted on Thursday, appearing via video link at the 14th BRICS Summit. “Only on the basis of honest and mutually beneficial cooperation is it possible to find a way out of this crisis situation that has gripped the global economy due to the thoughtless and selfish actions of certain states,” Putin explained.

The Russian leader stressed that today, as never before, the leadership of the BRICS countries is needed in order to develop a unifying policy for the shaping of a truly multipolar system of intergovernmental relations, and that it ought to be based on the universally recognized norms of international law and the key principles of the UN Charter. According to Putin, the BRICS states (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) have a truly enormous political, economic, scientific, technological and human potential.

Their influence on the global arena is increasing with every year, he pointed out. “Russia is ready to continue developing close multifaceted interaction with all the [BRICS] partners and contribute to the enhancement of its role in international affairs,” Putin promised.

As I wrote earlier: “The west is not the future. That time is behind us. And many countries recognize this.”

 

China Promotes ‘Non-Western Multilateralism’ at BRICS Summit

China hosted the first day of the fourteenth annual BRICS Summit—a series of meetings involving the leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa—on Wednesday, amid a series of major shifts in the global world order and rising geopolitical tensions in Eastern Europe and East Asia. Chinese president Xi Jinping opened the summit on Wednesday, emphasizing the five nations’ “shared desire to meet challenges together through cooperation,” according to China’s state-run Xinhua news agency. The Chinese leader also urged the countries in attendance to “embrace solidarity and coordination and jointly maintain world peace and stability.”

The BRICS group comprises the five largest developing economies; together, its members constitute forty percent of the world’s population and one-fourth of global gross domestic product. The group includes the two most populous nations in the world, China and India, as well as Russia, the largest in terms of land. Chinese state media has praised the role of the five-nation grouping, claiming that ties between the BRICS countries had increased “multilateral cooperation with non-Western styles, forms, and principles [of government”—marking a positive contrast to the actions of the United States, which it accused of “pulling its Western allies to ‘rebel’ against globalization.”

Despite considerable internal differences within the bloc, including a decades-old rivalry between China and India, all of the BRICS countries have resisted full political alignment with the West. Of the five BRICS nations, only one, Brazil, voted in the United Nations General Assembly to condemn Russia for invading Ukraine in February; Russia voted against the measure, while the other three countries abstained. Even Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro refused to personally condemn Putin, whom the West has widely framed as the driving force behind the Russian invasion. In his remarks on Wednesday, Xi appeared to criticize the United States and NATO, describing the Russian invasion of Ukraine as a “wake-up call for all in the world.”

 

From Bradley Blankenship, American journalist, columnist and political commentator, published at RT.

BRICS Members Represent The Best Hope For A Fairer World Order

The 14th BRICS Summit in Beijing is just wrapping up amid a turbulent international geopolitical landscape, which highlights the importance of the organization in general. Given the combined challenges of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, global conflict, a looming economic crash and climate change – the current international system is failing and a new, multi-polar alternative must take its place. It’s worth noting the context of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) format. Started in 2009 amid a financial crisis, the main goal of that year’s first BRICS (or BRIC as it was then) summit in Yekaterinburg was to improve the global economic situation and reform financial institutions.

Although these countries are not joined by any particular ideology, each saw the need to democratize the global economic system that had been crashed pretty much single-handedly by the United States in an extraordinarily irresponsible – even illegal by US law, in some instances – manner. The head of China’s Central Bank bluntly called for abandoning the dollar as the global reserve currency in 2009 because of a lack of faith in US monetary leadership. That was 13 years ago, yet the necessity of a new reserve currency could not be more relevant these days. In fact, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on June 22 just ahead of the latest BRICS summit that the group was indeed developing its own reserve currency based on a basket of their currencies. With this, Putin said the group is hoping to develop alternatives to the existing international payment scheme.

While this could be seen as provocative in the West, it is actually for the betterment of mankind and is not aimed strictly at one country or one coalition of countries. To note, India pushed back against any “anti-US” rhetoric in the group’s joint statement, being a country that is considered part of the Global South, e.g., a developing country, and also has strong relations with the West. Yet, at the same time, it’s clear that all BRICS states, including India, would benefit from a democratized global economic and financial system. That is why New Delhi has not joined Western-led sanctions against Russia over the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, because doing so does not serve India’s economic interests – and it would also establish a bad precedent where countries could essentially be excluded from the international community over political disagreements.

Indeed, BRICS and its members have gone a long way to pursue zero-strings-attached development cooperation. China alone had already replaced the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank as the world’s largest net creditor at the beginning of the last decade, expanding investments in tangible assets across the Global South (and beyond) through the Belt and Road Initiative. But in a direct challenge to these two previously mentioned US-led institutions, which have morphed into weapons of economic coercion, BRICS established the New Development Bank in 2014.

[..] At a minimum, BRICS has a serious role in balancing out the malignant influence of the US, NATO and the prevailing Western-led world system. Finance and economics are no small part of this, and BRICS’ drive to establish alternatives to the dollar-based Bretton Woods system, providing credit to the Global South without political conditions and establishing a new reserve currency, is an extraordinary push toward a multi-polar future.

The question is of course how the reigning order will react to losing its power. Will they drop nukes? If they do, it would every likely be suicidal. But some people are very particular about control, and about losing it. Thing is, it’s already lost, they just don’t realize it yet.

While you were watching the abortion debate, and Zelensky’s heroics, the entire world order has changed. How about that?

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Mary Christine

But some people are very particular about control, and about losing it. Thing is, it’s already lost, they just don’t realize it yet.

I think they do realize it but just won’t admit it. Cornered rats do desperate things. Buckle up.

Paleocon
Paleocon

Like nuclear war for Cloward–Piven to come to fruition?

Ghost

MC, this video about Field Marshall Keitel, the original military meat puppet willing to carry out his Fuhrer’s wishes no matter how illegal, immoral or just plain evil they were. I am sure it is exactly how Obama and his bosses feel about Biden.

A horrible death for a horrible man. Like the Jezebels’ before them, their names will be reviled and their legacies consumed by the dogs. And, like Benedict Arnold and Wilheim Keitel before them, their cowardice will only be overwhelmed by their treason.

I hope they let Joe keep his sunglasses on as he dangles from the post, symbolic of the fires of hell being so bright he needs them, finally.

flash
flash

lol… a psychotic Khazar who enjoys murder. From private to master Sergeant in one promotion…imagine that. Clown World Faggot does love a killer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Woods

“Born in Wichita, Kansas,[3] Woods joined the US Navy on December 3, 1929, and went absent without leave within months. He was convicted at a general court martial and subsequently examined by a psychiatric board on April 23, 1930. He was diagnosed with “Constitutional Psychopathic Inferiority without Psychosis”, was found “poor service material” and discharged.[4] Before being inducted into the United States Army in August 1943, Woods was intermittently employed in construction as a laborer, and was working part-time at a feed-store in Eureka, Kansas, when he was registered for Selective Service in 1940″
In fact, Woods had no documented pre-war experience as a hangman. Woods at that time was a private and a member of the 37th Engineer Combat Battalion. He was promoted to master sergeant and transferred to Paris Disciplinary Training Center.[5] Woods performed as the primary executioner in the hangings of 34 U.S. soldiers at various locations in France over 1944–1945, and assisted in at least three others. U.S. Army reports suggest that Woods participated in at least 11 bungled hangings of U.S. soldiers between 1944 and 1946.[ci”

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Anonymous
Anonymous

Your source is so incredible. I have to pinch myself to see if I’m awake.

Anonymous
Anonymous

It’s as good a place to start as any, especially for the neophyte. Easy to get ‘lost’ in the hyperlinks. Much easier to refine/narrow your search elsewhere/anywhere/everywhere.

https://definitions.uslegal.com/w/war-material/

Compliments of the enemy. Use it.

Anonymous
Anonymous
Wideguy
Wideguy

“Ironically, the BRICS countries never looked to be as prominent economically as they are today, they were happy to build up one step at a time.”

This is a rather astounding assertion don’t you think MC?

I’m guessing it’s an unfounded assertion.

As to what you replied to, those people never had control. All they had was enough power to destroy and murder, disrupt and overthrow. They have never really been in control, nor ever will they be other than locally and temporarily.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Question:

(1) Is poot’n for real?
(2) Is ‘Stiletto’ zelensky STILL alive?

Multiple guess:

(A) 1 = no; 2 = yes
(B) 1 = yes; 2 = no

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_recorded_sniper_kills

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

Zelensky is no more running Ukraine than Biden is running the US. Even offing Victoria Nuland wouldn’t kill the hydra.

Anonymous
Anonymous

How Did Hercules Kill the Hydra?

Proof that no man is an Island, and you can use the resources of the enemy to fight other battles.

Anonymous
Anonymous

well then, why would ya think poot’n is running russia? Logic not my strong suite, admittedly.

Putin it where it counts
Putin it where it counts

Trust China. Yawn

Anonymous
Anonymous

Will be the ‘Official’ new leader of Evil soon enough though.

Anonymous
Anonymous

You cannot have a corrupt prosperous country. Corruption and prosperity are diametrically opposed, and cannot co-exist. Corruption is what separates developed countries from 3rd world countries. The systems which create prosperity cannot function in a corrupt society. The so called West, is now a group of thoroughly corrupt governments who act only in their own interests and not the interests of their people. We are on the course to poverty and enslavement because we have allowed our governments to become completely corrupt.

Anonymous
Anonymous

GUARANTEED he paid EVERY PENNY of tax.

Was Washington’s distillery the largest in the country?
Washington’s distillery was one of the largest distilleries in the nation at its time. Distilleries were very common in early America. In the 1810 census, there were more than 3,600 distilleries operating in the state of Virginia alone. At its time Washington’s distillery was one of the largest whiskey distilleries in the country.

Anonymous
Anonymous

I disagree.
You cannot maintain a corrupt country in prosperity — over the long term.
You also cannot maintain a prosperous country without corruption — over the long term.

Anonymous
Anonymous

“I disagree.
You cannot…”

On the off chance that ya see this, can’t fully grasp what You are saying?

Like, everything suffers from the yoyo effect, One extreme to the other?

Serious question.

Thank You if You see this and are inclined to answer.

Paleocon
Paleocon

It is interesting the G7 is putting forward its own Belt and Road initiative for the third world. The West is decades behind China in this and we have already lost the war. Most of the world trades with BRICS now. Our sanctions cut our own throats.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

The G7 version also comes with conditions:

Are you subjugating any ethnic minorities?
Are you favoring any religious sect over another?
Do you allow gay marriage? Abortion?
Where do you stand on trans rights?
Will you pretend with us that global warming is your biggest problem?
Etc.

Who needs that shit?

Aunt Acid
Aunt Acid

Those with a predilection for coprophagia?

C.A.L.
C.A.L.

They’re all going to need bigger spoons.

NickelthroweR
NickelthroweR

You can be the playground bully until you run into someone that won’t back down. Then, you can never be a bully again.

Russia just destroyed all confidence in NATO by disassembling its proxy army. Everyone can see now that the EU is powerless to stop Russia but must have Russian raw materials and energy in order to survive. What a mess, huh?

That leaves the United States but our tranny-army is in no way prepared to fight Russia. Yeah, we have a military that can transport a division overnight anywhere in the World and the US military can certainly throw a punch but I am of the opinion that the US military can not take a punch. After all, it has an extremely complicated order of battle that has more in common with AMAZON than Sherman & Sheridan. How well it can fight without GPS, without air superiority, and under a rain of hypersonic missiles remains to be seen.

Yup, now that someone has stood up to the bully there will be no going back.

Harrington Richardson: Gimme Sachwerte!
Harrington Richardson: Gimme Sachwerte!

The US has not faced an enemy capable of combined arms since WW2. Has not faced air attack on it’s forces since WW2. Has not faced a peer naval power since WW2. We have removed weapons from submarines to allow quarters for females. The MARINES are developing “safe spaces” for the mentally unstable recruits Milley demands they accommodate while criminal drug cartels have operational control of the US border. No wonder Republican governors are forming state militias unconnected to the US military.

Glock-N-Load

What governors are doing this?

Harrington Richardson: Gimme Sachwerte!
Harrington Richardson: Gimme Sachwerte!

Don’t recall them all but DeSantis front and center.

Harrington Richardson: Gimme Sachwerte!
Harrington Richardson: Gimme Sachwerte!

The picture of the G7 buffoons disgusts me. Virtually no military experience, no business experience with many literally never having had a private sector job. One with Dementia, one half the age of his wife who he was f’ing when he was in 8th grade or some disgraceful thing, and the walking mop of hair Bojo who can’t keep his pants on. They are the essence of the rot in the West. What rational leader, regardless of ideology would be seen with this collection of human debris?

Harrington Richardson: Gimme Sachwerte!
Harrington Richardson: Gimme Sachwerte!

Fantastic observation about us watching morons and commies screaming about murdering babies while the world decided to be done with us and our corrupt governments and corporations. Were it not so sad one would be rolling on the floor in laughter that the empty husk Biden would think banning taking worthless FRN fiat paper for Russian gold is a sanction or impediment. Gosh Joe, who would want Gold instead of paper?
Expect much more activity from the Democrap militias. Polling shows they are losing all those suburban women they depended on to support their stupidity. Lost Hispanics. Lost Black men. It is now impossible for Democraps to win a national election.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Except by fraud..

Eyes Wide Shut
Eyes Wide Shut

But they can sure tank energy, food and the economy and financial sectors along with starting WW3!
Duff me Marge!

flash
flash

We just need less mayonnaise and more diversity and the world will be a better place for us all.

WSB Cox articles
‘Too much mayo’: Subway customer arrested after shooting 2 employees, killing 1 over sandwich order
https://news.yahoo.com/too-much-mayo-sandwich-1-023354127.html

Diogenes' Dung
Diogenes' Dung

India’s Foreign Minister, Jaishankar, elegantly explains how western hypocrisy (“Our problems are your problems but your problems are not our problems.”) drives BRICS to create economic systems that can bypass western sanctions and our FX & National gold reserve thievery.

SmallerGovNow
SmallerGovNow

Great video except for his last comment about vaccines. The poor as he calls them are LUCKY they didn’t get vaxxed… Chip

flash
flash

Frikkin’ Huguenots…every. single. time.

https://youtu.be/9Qy2dFtyR5k

flash
flash

Wherein two Huguenots plot campaign strategy. Diversity be dey stranth …

LEAKED AUDIO: SC Dem Senate Candidate Krystle Matthews Calls For “Secret Sleepers” to Infiltrate GOP

Gilberts
Gilberts

So will there ever be a moment where people start to realize we’re the bad guys and all our enemies are, in fact, an alliance dedicated to opposing an out-of-control murderous regime?
I’m not saying that’s true, just wondering. We all grew up believing America is the white hats and our enemies are the black hats. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn1VxaMEjRU

Anonymous
Anonymous

The loosers are always black hats. Time will show what color we have.

flash
flash

Thank you greatest generations, because freedom ain’t free.

flash
flash
Wideguy
Wideguy

“Indeed, BRICS and its members have gone a long way to pursue zero-strings-attached development cooperation. China alone had already replaced the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank as the world’s largest net creditor at the beginning of the last decade, expanding investments in tangible assets across the Global South (and beyond) through the Belt and Road Initiative.”

No strings attached? Are you serious?

Anonymous
Anonymous

The world of Orwell’s 1984 was, geopolitically, a tripod.
NWO requires a realistically evenly matched adversary.

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