Another BRICS In The Wall
Looking at a Multipolar Future
One of the great successes of the Biden administration has been the resurrection of the BRICS group, not that this serves the American empire at all. Instead it shows the failure of Biden's foreign policy. BRICS are meeting this week and appear committed to continuing their partnership. Let's look at the history.
In 2001 an analyst at Goldman Sachs created the term BRIC to discuss Brazil, Russia, India, and China as emerging top tier economies. Jim O'Neill's paper is like going into a time nation, which can be accessed here. http://www.goldmansachs.com/our-thinking/archive/archive-pdfs/build-better-brics.pdf
Eventually, the BRIC countries decided to form their own group in 2009 and at the first meeting in 2009 explicitly called for a multipolar world order in place of the American hegemony. South Africa joined a year later.
The organization lapse for a time, but has come back with gusto. The BRICS are explicitly challenging the current system and are supporting Russia in its conflict with NATO proxy Ukraine.
During the Trump administration, Trump had good relations with India, Brazil, and Russia, in part because he supported the reordering of the world along national interest lines. China, which had been playing nice with the globalists, appears to now be back to pushing for a multipolar world.
Mexico under AMLO also had good relations with Trump as the two nationalists could unite in their common interest in state sovereignty. Mexico could be a potential future BRICS member.
Iran is clearly also a potential BRICS ally. It has fought against US hegemony for over 40 years and has good relations with China and Russia.
Other countries that could line up with the BRICS include Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Venezuela, Nigeria, Indonesia, Burma, and Malaysia.
Turkey is in an interesting spot. It has wanted EU membership for decades, only to be pushed aside over and over again. While it is a NATO member, it is adversarial to other European countries. Turkey has had positive relations with Russia (except over Syria), even buying anti-aircraft systems from Russia against US objection. Turkey might want to consider looking into the BRICS group.
As to the BRICS themselves, China and Russia have long-term potential problems, so the alliance may only be short-term. India and China have had conflicts, but may be able to work through them and find their common interests against the West. The West built up China, making the rope to hang itself, and is going to struggle to decouple from China.
The looming failure of Ukraine looks like it could severely weaken the US hegemony. As such, in a reordered world, many countries will start looking for new allies.
These are very interesting days.