The 2024 BRICS Summit - Shifting Global Power

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   Ken Burgessposted 8 months ago

   
   Genesis, growth, breakdown, and disintegration: such is the life cycle of a civilization proposed by Arnold Toynbee in his sweeping Study of History (1934) as the British Empire was gradually coming to terms with its waning geopolitical predominance.
   
   “In life and in the history of humanity, through every time period and every sphere,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said during a December 8, 2023 forum, “it has always been like this. Someone develops, then fades away. New leaders appear.”
   
   We are in the early stages of our decline, and the nations rising to fill the void America will leave is becoming clear.
   
   What remains unclear, is if this transition can occur peacefully and without tragedy and tribulations on a global scale that brings about devastation to the losing nations.  In other words, can WWIII be diverted before it is too late.
   
   BRICS takes its name from Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, which agreed in 2010 to form the bloc.
   
   The group saw further expansion at the start of 2024 with the accessions of Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates
   
   BRICS members generally agree that the United States’s preponderant role in the world, particularly in the financial sphere (SWIFT), is a relic of a rapidly fading post-Cold War system, one that they want to divest themselves from.
   
   The bloc also depicts the United States and its European allies as colonial states that have suppressed the development of low-income countries.
   
   BRICS members emphasize this to other nations, to garner their interest in joining BRICS, pointing out America's endless wars and continued support of aggression against nations seeking peace and compromise over conflict.
   
   Chinese Premier Xi Jinping emphasized that Beijing and African countries should “practice true multilateralism and unequivocally oppose vestiges of colonialism and hegemonism in all forms.”
   
   Putin often declares that the West seeks to “reshape the world exclusively on its terms,” such as when it tried to “paralyze Russia's banking sector” by ejecting Moscow from interstate financial systems (SWIFT).
   
   Perhaps most unsettling for the United States, however, are the rampant calls for de-dollarization made by current and aspiring BRICS members.
   
   How China, India, and Russia Are Using BRICS to Change Geopolitics Forever!
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzeZ8ZYIKFY

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