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Malaysia to Join BRICS

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MaxPock ◴[] No.40716600[source]
Why do Westerners hate the idea of BRICS so much ?

If western institutions and way of life are superior ,then capital will naturally gravitate towards them ..

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1. JumpCrisscross ◴[] No.40716635[source]
> Why do Westerners hate the idea of BRICS so much?

Goldman Sachs coined the term BRICS. If the institution worked, we’d see Western finance rushing to join it.

Nobody hates BRICS. It’s just sort of pathetic. As a security consortium, it’s a failure. As a trade consortium, it’s a failure. It talks about a dollar alternative, yet when Russia needed one China and India reverted to their own currencies.

It’s a dumb idea that made sense when Russia could balance India and China. That balance has failed. There isn’t a unified global south.