Amid a membership expansion, leaders of the bloc spoke out against sanctions, conditions on sovereign credit and dollar hegemony, Abdul Rahman reports.
By Abdul Rahman
Peoples Dispatch
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa set the tone for the BRICS summit in Johannesburg when he opened
I’m sure Russia and China have the perfect democracy in mind.
It will be perfectly fair. Both Putin and Xi will have 55% of the vote.
Bold to think Putin would be more than a junior partner.
Then again, he has lots of nukes.
I think what we’ve seen over the last bit, is that just nukes are a very inflexible tool. They protect you from open invasion, and that’s it, because nobody’s going to believe you will end the world over whatever diplomatic slight.