The 15th BRICS Meeting in South Africa is closely watch by the whole world, by the West headed by the Americans and the Global South with great hopes and expectation that freedom and independence from the control and oppression of the white men has finally arrived. On this day, BRICS would be making decision on the inclusion of new members, dedollarisation and a new financial and banking system free from the American controlled and abused SWIFT system.
With high expectation on how these developments would change and transform the world, the American propaganda machine has been working overtime churning news about internal disagreement in the BRICS founding members, with some opposing expansion of membership, against the introduction of a new currency, bickering and with India being tagged as the spoiler to stop the progress of BRICS in all three proposals.
BRICS is the hope of the Global South as their own club, a club to look after and protect their interest from the West. A club to give them more freedom to trade and to make their own decision on economic development and international relations. The strength of BRICS is thus in its membership. The bigger the membership, the stronger would be BRICS to stand up against western bullying and coercion. No one among the founding members can be so blind to oppose the expansion of BRICS membership. The spurious talks about limiting membership, allowing only a small handful of new members are against the interest of BRICS.
BRICS cannot act and behave like G7, a private club of a few select western states. If BRICS is to head the same way, to be the exclusive club of a few from the Global South, BRICS would fail in its mission as the champion of the rest of the world. BRICS must be expansive and inclusive, and welcoming to all the Global South countries to be members. BRICS is not just the hope of the Global South, but also the representative of the Global South to free themselves from western domination and control. The talks about only admitting 3 or 4 members in August is self defeating. BRICS must open its door widely to welcome one and all from the Global South that want to be a member. BRICS must not forget what it stands for and behave like an exclusive club for a few select countries. It would fail if it does not live up to the expectation that it represent the Global South.
The August Meeting could change the world. More membership, a new banking and finance system, a new international currency, would free the Global South from the West. It would breathe a new life to the countries of the world. It would be a new Independence Day for the Global South. BRICS founding members must be clear in what BRICS stood for and let the common good of the Global South drive the organisation and play down on minor selfish interest for the greater good. Any serious division and disagreement would spell the doom of BRICS. BRICS would become another still born child, before it could even learn to walk.
The whole Global South is awaiting the arrival of an enlarged and strong BRICS to set them free from the West and American hegemony. BRICS is the great non White Hope of the Global South. If it fails to deliver what it promises in South Africa, it would quash the hopes and expectation of the rest of the Global South. The founding members of the BRICS must put their differences aside for the good of BRICS and the Global South.
India aspires to be the leader of the Global South. Would it derail the BRICS train and crash it when the BRICS train is just starting to gain speed pushing ahead? Would India behave as the spoiler in BRICS as reported by the western media, to act as an agent of the Americans and the West, to kill BRICS and its ambition to be the leading Club of the developing Global South? Should India act as an American agent to stop BRICS from doing what it wants, it would be a crime against the Global South. The other founding members must be prepared for such a development and to take out India should India become the main obstacle in its path. The founding members of BRICS must prepare and be ready to act when this happens in South Africa and not an after thought, an after event to be left pondering after a failed Summit.
The BRICS Summit in August cannot fail and must not fail.
India, aka double-headed-snake, will try to sabotage the BRICS for sure because it is in its well-known inherent nature to sabotage! If India doesn't sabotage, then it's very unnatural!
ReplyDeleteOn a seperate topic, I want to talk about Pakistan and the successful installation of a USA stooge now running the country.
ReplyDeleteWhen Imran Khan, the Pakistan PM, who was among the earliest leader to visit Putin in Moscow at the start of the Ukraine War in February, 2022, I had a bad feeling that he would surely be removed somehow. The USA and the West was then spreading the narrative that Putin had no friends and was isolated. With the narrative starting to unravel, the USA immediately went about bribing the opposition in the Pakistani Parliament, resulting in a no confidence vote against Khan, and he was removed in April 2022.
Khan had been a thorn in the USA side and in the bad books of the USA even earlier, when during an interview he spoke of his admiration for China and how hundreds of millions of Chinese had been lifted out of poverty, which gave him the encouragement to sound out his intention to implement an attempt to do the same in Pakistan. Many analyst were fully in support of his wisdom and his leading of Pakistan in the right direction. He never was given the chance to follow his heart, as following China's footstep is against the USA's agenda of linking everything that is wrong to the Chinese system.
For Pakistan to be allowed to follow the footsteps of China, a non democratic country and yet able to outdo the USA, the self professed beacon of democracy, that was clearly mired in homelessness and languishing with almost 40 million (according to 2021 official census) of its own citizens living below the poverty line, it was a slap on the face of the USA. Why Imran Khan was not following the USA's democratic ideal speaks volumes of what works and what doesn't? Imran Khan's own outspoken message from his heart was what the USA found it hard to swallow. The truth hurts and Khan had to be removed, with an orchestrated regime change, obvious and clearly defined.
Now the USA is pretending to be as innocent as an angel, telling the world that what is happening in Pakistan is just an internal matter. Yeah, with its stooge in power, the USA is perfectly agreeable with that. But, what about Niger, where the USA stooge is on the other side of the fence and being removed? The USA and its allies are fabricating all the narratives to demonise the new military regime. Niger will not end up peaceful and safe when the devil is intent on creating trouble.
Does the love of the Muslim Ugyhurs in Xinjiang not in stark contrast to the fate of the Muslims in India? Hindus in India are more lovable that Muslims now, all because Modi is a Hindu, supported by Hindu fanatics. Modi is using the divide and rule tactic to cause friction between different ethnic and religious groups, with elections on the horizon. Hindus form the biggest majority ethnic group in India.
Any poor country is game enough for the USA to do a regime change, just by bribing the opposition to do its bidding, like the attempt made in Thailand recently. Or the failed attempt in Myanmar with the Aung San Suu Kyi experiment. The USA has all the money printing machine and power to do that, which no other country has the privilege.
Letting Saudi Arabia join BRICS is crucial as the US is getting desperate about de-dollarization.
ReplyDeleteThe Wall Street Journal on Aug 09 says:
[In exchange for U.S. concessions to Saudi Arabia, the Biden administration is seeking assurances from Saudi Arabia that it will distance itself—economically and militarily—from China, say U.S. officials.
The officials said the U.S. could seek assurances from Saudi Arabia that it won’t allow China to build military bases in the kingdom—an issue that has become a sore point between the Biden administration and United Arab Emirates. Negotiators could also seek limitations on Saudi Arabia using technology developed by China’s Huawei and assurances that Riyadh will use U.S. dollars, not Chinese currency, to price oil sales, they said. The U.S. also is expected to look for ways to end the feud over oil prices driven by Saudi Arabia’s repeated production cuts.]
Also yesterday, the WSJ reported in its column 'The Scary Math Behind the World’s Safest Assets' - about US swelling debt pile and diminishing global appetite for US Treasury securities - that " Having the world’s reserve currency and a printing press that allows it to never actually default makes America’s situation far better, though not consequence-free. "
The strength of BRICS is from its members. The more members it has, the stronger it would be. Hope all the applicants would be admitted in August.
ReplyDeleteThink about it, a 5 member BRICS becomes a 50 member BRICS!