The detailed account by Edwin Naidu of how BRICS is poised to reshape the global economic order (The Mercury, May 21) must have been written last month because it pays no attention to significant international developments since then.
A new global configuration is emerging, which negates much of Naidu’s boast about the collective size of BRICS’ GDP, making it of “strategic relevance.” That configuration was noted by Putin earlier this month when he stated that he counts China, India, the US and other nations as part of a security configuration confronting the EU, WEF globalist order.
Macron of France confirmed that when he observed what he called a “unique moment when the President of the US, the President of Russia and China’s leader are categorically opposing the Europeans.”
Trump is dethroning the globalist order, which, since 1971, has used energy to enthrone world economic domination controlled by London, which, through OPEC, dictated oil prices and manufactured crises. OPEC cartelization is crumbling in the face of the massive increase in US oil production, which exceeds that of the Saudis and Russia. The UAE’s exit from OPEC underlines that trend.
Of course, the EU globalists and their Canadian partner have reacted to Trump’s reconfiguration of global politics. Canada’s globalist PM, Mark Carney, has chaired two meetings on the subject, one in Yerevan, Armenia, attended by 40 mostly European nations and the second one in Toronto on May 9. That one was attended by Obama, who sees his role as the leader of a shadow US government opposing Trump’s America First order, which prioritises US sovereignty and defence of the constitution.
Given the groundswell of populist opposition against Macron, Sanchez, Starmer and Merz, Carney’s plan to shore up the globalist front is hardly inspiring.
Thus, it is in the context of those developments that BRICS pales into insignificance. Opposed to the EU and NATO, Putin is inclined in Trump’s direction, acknowledged by Scott Bessent’s lifting of US sanctions on Russian exports. Modi of India is already in a positive relationship with the Trump administration in terms of economics and strategic security. Contrary to the fake news, Trump’s mission to China was a great success.
With the key pillars of BRICS – Russia, India and China – tilted towards Trump’s re-ordering of trade and geopolitics, what’s left of BRICS is irrelevant.
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