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Institutions become a nuisance
This logic explains the growing irritation toward institutions the US once built and championed. They are now seen not as force multipliers but as bureaucratic ballast. Structures where non-Western states play leading roles – BRICS in particular - are treated with open hostility, not because of what they do, but because of what they symbolically represent: countries trying to join forces to limit American dominance. In Trump’s worldview, that is intolerable.
Paradoxically,...
... actuality, this US-led liberal order is undergoing a profound transformation with the rise of a multipolar world order and the US is no longer its chief architect.
Igbal Guliyev, Maria Ginzburg:
The Impact of Trump’s Tariff Policy on Food Security for BRICS States
The rules-based international order is actually a rebranding of the Liberal International Order (LIO) that originated and developed in two periods of US preponderance: the post-World War II era and the post-Cold War era. Grounded in international ...
... works. But countries with no security obligations to the US have reacted differently. They reject being treated as clients, especially when it all comes down to money flowing to America.
Hence the surprise in Washington when so many states line up for BRICS+ or SCO+. They are not necessarily embracing Russia or China unconditionally; they are signaling their refusal to live by rules drawn elsewhere.
Russia’s place
Against this backdrop, Russia finds itself not marginalized but central. Western isolation efforts only underscored Moscow’s role as a key pole around which non-Western states can organize. For ...
Trump is trying to curb the new rise of the alternative BRICS globalization approach
U.S. President Donald Trump issued a stern ultimatum to Russia, BRICS member states, and their economic partners. He warned that unless a peace agreement with Ukraine is signed within 50 days—by September 3, 2025—Washington ...
... protocols provide a lifeline, not just for BRICS but for free economies worldwide, including the U.S., to diversify supply chains and bolster resilience. Saudi Arabia's pending membership and the growing partner network (Algeria, Nigeria, and beyond) signal BRICS openness to inclusive growth, not exclusionary dominance.
For the USA, embracing this bloc means amplifying its global reach, not relinquishing it—trading with a powerhouse that thrives on entrepreneurial mysticism. The five-step mandate—digitizing SMEs, upskilling entrepreneurs, incentivizing innovation, fostering ...
... international developments. One could note that this will be the first trip of Xi to Moscow since March of 2023, when he came to the Russian capital shortly after securing a third term as China’s leader. Half a year ago, President XI attended the 2024 BRICS summit in Russia’s Kazan, but the summit was a multilateral gathering rather than a bilateral summit meeting.
The formal reason for the forthcoming state visit is to pay respect for the Soviet contribution to the defeat of Nazism in the Second ...
... influence grows, their willingness to conform to external rules diminishes.
This shift does not eliminate the need for frameworks of coexistence. However, future international relations are more likely to resemble the flexible, informal structure of BRICS+ rather than rigid, binding agreements. This model acknowledges shared interests without imposing strict criteria or legal obligations.
Could a new
“Yalta”
agreement be possible between Russia and the West? In theory, yes. A limited arrangement ...
Interaction between Latin America and BRICS promises to be mutually enriching
The BRICS Summit held in Kazan from October 22–24, 2024, brought attention to several defining factors regarding Latin American countries that will be important for the continent’s political and economic development ...
... culture features sovereign equality, dialogue, respect for national interests and civilizational values, and consensus.
Neither BRICS nor the SCO is overtly anti-American or anti-Western: their main focus is internal rather than external, and they have their ... ... don’t want to dominate Eurasia: they live there, it is their home – unlike the ever-restless
“indispensable nation”
thousands of miles away. In Ukraine, the main issue for Russia has been national security, not some
“resurrection of an empire”
...
... to join the group. It is all driven by their own plans and intentions.
The very fact that a number of U.S. journalists cast doubt on the ability of China and India, Saudi Arabia and Iran to work together, only confirms a unique character and power of BRICS. When sneering at Argentina's “recusal”, they ignore that there were neither criticism nor threats towards Buenos Aires from other members of the Organization. Only a confirmation of the readiness to cooperate in any convenient form. And this is the key idea behind the new world order ...
