Another BRIC in the wall: Super Power Super Unions Emerge
There's battle lines being drawn. Nobody's right if everybody's wrong."
There's battle lines being drawn. Nobody's right if everybody's wrong." Stephen Stills of the group Buffalo Springfield and later of Crosby, Stills, and Nash fame penned this line in response to his observations during the Sunset Strip riots in Los Angeles California in the mid-1960s. How does this relate to Brazil, Russia, India, China and the rest of world events in 2023? Let's unpack it shall we?
BRIC is a confederation of nations that as of 2001 were among the four major emerging economies of the 21st century, Brazil, Russia, India, and China. In 2010 South Africa was added. As of 2023 and beyond, BRICS is poised to boast a membership of 13+ nations. Those nations represent roughly 51% of the world's population and account for nearly half of the world's GDP. Argentina, Algeria, and Iran have applied for membership. Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Egypt, and Afghanistan are expected to join soon and the BRICS+ expansion will be a key topic of discussion at their major conference in August of 2023 in South Africa. In addition there are currently several other countries that have already opened up filings to join for official membership. Kazakhstan, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Senegal, Thailand, and the United Arab Emirates all sent their financial ministers to the BRICS Expansion dialogue meeting in May of 2022
Let's not be fooled by this ever growing number of countries and consider that China accounts for 70% of the BRICS+ economic power. China is the bull in the shop. China's Belt and Road Initiative has accelerated the expansion of BRICS+, as it's known now, to a degree that the number of potential countries on board has ballooned to a whopping 20 countries. Costa rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Bolivia, Chile, Cuba, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, Azerbaijan, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam all have expressed interest. Chris Devonshire-Ellis has an excellent summarization in his article "The New Candidate Countries For BRICS Expansion:"
"Such a grouping is geo-physically diverse as well, with BRICS+ potential members able to wield considerable influence in their own backyard: Argentina, and Brazil in Latin America, Nicaragua in Central America, Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the UAE in MENA, Nigeria, Senegal and South Africa in Africa, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan and Russia in Central Asia, India, Indonesia and Thailand from South East Asia, and China in East Asia. All of course are members of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, and likely to influence other regional BRI countries in due course. Many other nations have signed BRI agreements and have increasingly close trade ties with China and Russia.”
Trade battle lines are being drawn, economic battle lines are being drawn, natural resources are being claimed. Old ideas and treaties are changing daily. Nobody’s right if everybody continues to be wrong in their 'end justifies the means' mentality. All it takes is a somewhat informed mind to deduce that there are a number of countries namely the West and especially the United States of America that are quickly finding themselves on the outside looking in of future trade, economic, and world affairs. The United States may no longer be able to throw around old weapons such as trade sanctions as a tool for control. Americans must bring back capable leaders for America that are not beholden to special interest groups, NGOs, and Corporate interests, but rather leaders that will do the will of the people and will enact policies defending and benefiting the free people of the United States of America first and foremost. The first place to start is in our own backyard. We will accomplish this by cleaning up the mess that we as voters have allowed to overflow the halls of Congress, State houses nationwide, and in local governments. The ones of these that have been corrupted must be routed out and new leaders must be installed, by way of a properly informed electorate, to ensure our future security from these major world issues interactions, negotiations, and possible calamities that are unfolding now.