South Africa Showed That BRICS Isn’t What Many Of Its Supporters Assumed
Andrew Korybko- BRICS country’s leadership decided to play it safe by not hosting the Russian leader instead of risking that worst-case scenario
For as much as the ruling African National Congress might sincerely want to host President Putin and accelerate financial multipolarity processes through close cooperation with Russia via BRICS, the “politically inconvenient” fact is that it ultimately chose to submit to Western pressure and not do so. Building upon this observation and the precedent established by the simple thought of sanctions enforcing compliance with foreign demands, BRICS clearly isn’t what many of its supporters assumed.
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