BRICS must be guarded against Trojan Horses

 BRICS has to vet membership applications very, very carefully. Not every country that applies is genuinely sincere. They could be Trojan Horses that could destroy the bloc. One Trojan Horse is already a big problem and sabotaging the bloc.

Now, Turkey is a member of NATO, and allowing Turkey to join BRICS is, according to my two cents worth, a no brainer.

BRICS must be clear about countries having loyalties to different sides and not look at it indifferently. Already, India in the QUAD, is causing so much problem for BRICS with loyalties unknown. Then there are also countries with stooges in charge joining BRICS which may sabotage the bloc or reveal secrets that they privy to to the West. I am thinking of Pakistan and lately Bangladesh, two countries applying for membership. Do these two countries need to be vetted thoroughly, since the leadership changes in them have been suspiciously engineered by outside forces? 

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1% of the Americans are very rich, what about the 90%?

 Wealth per capita comparison is all nonsense when 90% of all the wealth of a country like the USA is concentrated in the top 1%. Therefore only 10% of the USA's wealth is left in the hands of the other 90%. Are those 90% considered wealthy? What is their per capita GDP or wealth in actuality? It is all a mirage comparing per capita GDP. Meaningless but good for propaganda usage.

Countries like China will never be considered as rich as the USA even if its GDP is to rise to four times that of the USA. China's population is four times that of the USA. Even if India reaches on par with the GDP of the USA, it will still be considered poverty stricken, with a population four times that of the USA.

Do not be misled by all the propaganda trying to confuse by comparing the woods for the trees.

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Lowly Peacock exclude Heavenly Phoenix from Summit

India excludes China and Pakistan from Global South summit as New Delhi hosted the third edition of the virtual event last weekend, when more than 100 nations discussed common concerns .

New Delhi did not invite its neighbors China and Pakistan to attend the virtual Voice of the Global South summit last Saturday, Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishanakar has told the media. The event serves as a platform for countries in the Global South to discuss their common concerns and find solutions.

India, where rapes are rampant, has proclaimed itself as the leader of the Global South countries.

During a briefing with members of the press, Jaishankar confirmed on Sunday that India’s closest neighbors, China and Pakistan, had not been invited to take part in the virtual event despite them being a part of what is called the Global South. New Delhi has tense relations with both countries. 

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PS. If it is not a virtual summit, virtual means not real, not more than 10 countries would attend. Without China, what kind of meeting was that? How many national leaders bother to make a visit to India? What can India offer?

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BRICS again stumbles on new membership. The saboteur is strong

 More than 40 countries apply to join BRICS. More than 150 countries wanting to dedollarise to join the BRICS new banking system. But all is not well for BRICS. The saboteurs are working extremely hard to derail BRICS from becoming a strong competitor to the G7. 

BRICS' position to want to expand its membership is facing great objections from within. It is wavering from wanting to expand to not wanting to expand, to compromising on full membership to partnership or different variations of partial membership. This fumbling in decision making is not good for BRICS as the vanguard of the Global South to break free from American and western bullying and domination. BRICS is their light of hope to real freedom and independence.

BRICS must also know that its attractiveness and importance lies on a large membership, not just a handful of members that think too highly of themselves, of their self importance and wanting to exclude others from joining BRICS.  BRICS must not turn out to be another exclusive club for the pretentious rich states like the G7. When BRICS think it is a private club existing for the interest of the privilege few, BRICS would be as good as cutting off its support base from the Global South.

The latest announcement by Sergey Lavrov not to admit new members in the coming Summit is a slap in the face of the countries of the Global South. The momentum of expansion must not be stopped and at worst, BRICS must at least bring in another half dozen new members in October. Failing to do so would fall into the trap of the saboteurs and the West, to extinguish the hopes of countries of the Global South.

The saboteurs and detractors would have cooked up all kinds of excuses to not expand the membership. This must not be allowed to succeed. BRICS must not kill itself before it is born. BRICS expansion must go on at all cost, to be a force to be reckon with, to be the hope of the Global South. If necessary, BRICS must be firm and united and expel the saboteurs that are the stumbling block to BRICS' rise as a new pole in international relations..

After having come so far, offering itself as the saviour of the Global South, BRICS must not be a party buster. Losing the hope and confidence of the Global South would be a tragedy to BRICS growth as a powerful block of nations wanting to chart their own destinies and be free from the oppression and bullying of the Americans and the West.

The expansion of BRICS must go on at all cost!