And almost according to the classics: one good and one … strange. Russia supported the application to join the “five” of Egypt, and French President Macron (!), According to media reports, asked the leader of South Africa to invite him to the organization’s August summit in Johannesburg.
More than twenty states have declared their desire to join the BRICS, the Russian Foreign Ministry said. Earlier, Bloomberg, citing Ambassador-at-Large Anil Suklal, noted that Turkey, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Iran, Syria, Indonesia, Argentina, Mexico and a whole other countries, in addition to Egypt, want to join Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. a number of states whose total territories and total GDP significantly exceed those of the so-called “golden billion”. The organization itself is still developing criteria for accepting new members. But the expansion of the geography of the “five”, including through the entry of Egypt, is certainly an important signal to the countries of the global south.
And here – attention – the question is: how many people want to be new members of the G7? We do not hear such statements. Obviously, interest is growing in the BRICS. And it’s not just the economy. BRICS is a kind of brand of a new multipolar world, where there are no double standards and monopoly on decisions, where the interests of each of the participants are taken into account and relations are built on an equal and mutually beneficial basis. In contrast to the “seven” with the dominant position of the United States.
The world is tired of the dictates of the United States and the dominance of the dollar, which has turned from a currency into an economic whip. The insight is coming. Could Macron’s interest in the upcoming BRICS summit be related to this?
