05-01-2024, 12:59 PM
I am not especially knowledgeable about the nuances and intricacies of BRICS. But it seems to me that the entire affair is not really the economic union everyone tells me it is.
Maybe someone here can tell me why this isn't actually a geopolitical alliance, as it appears to me?
BRICS members appear to operate on a geologic-scale timeline. (Not saying this is a bad thing for their objectives, only bad for media coverage.) It took ten years of meeting (which means ten meetings) to wrangle objectives for a banking paradigm. And while they have been negotiating a "gold standard" currency for all that time, little has actually been established.
The larger powers are all like "Poop or get off the pot!" and the smaller are impatiently waiting for a proven alternative to continuing the systemic paradigms that feed the superpowers. I always felt it was not ideal to allow countries like China and Russia into the BRICS game... they will only use BRICS as a tool in their perpetual ploys to confound their geopolitical adversaries. If BRICS and its participants get hurt, it's no loss to them.
Maybe someone here can tell me why this isn't actually a geopolitical alliance, as it appears to me?
BRICS members appear to operate on a geologic-scale timeline. (Not saying this is a bad thing for their objectives, only bad for media coverage.) It took ten years of meeting (which means ten meetings) to wrangle objectives for a banking paradigm. And while they have been negotiating a "gold standard" currency for all that time, little has actually been established.
The larger powers are all like "Poop or get off the pot!" and the smaller are impatiently waiting for a proven alternative to continuing the systemic paradigms that feed the superpowers. I always felt it was not ideal to allow countries like China and Russia into the BRICS game... they will only use BRICS as a tool in their perpetual ploys to confound their geopolitical adversaries. If BRICS and its participants get hurt, it's no loss to them.
