The decline of the West might be inevitable. But it seems perverse to celebrate it, given what we know about regimes that are likely to benefit
and Russia at the helm, says it is ready to lead the planet into a better, Washington-free future.On Thursday, we learnt that existing Brics members – Russia, China, India, South Africa and Brazil – are going to admit Saudi Arabia, Iran, Ethiopia, Egypt, Argentina and the United Arab Emirates, thus cementing the organisation’s status as a confederation of the oppressive and the bankrupt.
Iranian President, Ebrahim Raisi, immediately hailed the group’s effort to move away from dependence on the US dollar, a financial state of affairs that allows Washington to apply punishing sanctions on the barbarous regime in Tehran. The Brics leaders, with Russia represented by foreign minister Sergei Lavrov, along with attendees from the six nations invited to join the group – Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, UAE and Saudi Arabia, during the summit’s closing day in Johannesburg, South Africa
Political extremists everywhere are cock-a-hoop. The end of not just American power, but Western influence, is what they dream of. “The rise of the Global South and multipolarism accelerates, as the obsolete regime of Western hegemony dwindles into irrelevance,” posted “independent journalist” Richard Medhurst on Twitter, in the stilted, sixth-form language of the far left.and Egyptian despot Abdel Fattah al-Sisi could put their global stamp on social policies and human rights. The sadistic mullahs in Tehran could advise them on female dress codes.
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