BRICS - China's New Alliance Will FAIL

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[@dtsai]

Remember, only Capitalism understands money. A dictatorship that wants to control things will never inspire trust that they won’t take your money. USD is the only country that wants you to get rich. China locked up Billionaires. Same problem with Russia because only their friends can get rich and you can’t. If you give them your money and use their money you can never get it back. It even happens when Russia tried to get its money back from China.

[@albinoviper2876]

Dude you do not know enough to be getting into Geo-politics.

[@basedsalty6970]

​@Albino Viper Your exactly right

[@JohnDoe-gk4kn]

When have these lizard demons not get what they wanted? Answer, NEVER . they always get what they want. Always

[@basedsalty6970]

Bidens sanctions on Russia have failed only making Russias economy even stronger and making allies of China. Good job Joe Biden

[@Monster1w8]

As a South African, I can say with full confidence that we are not a power house......we can't even supply a house with power 🤣

[@TheGrace020]

😂😂😂

[@mohitvyas97]

Most brics states can't lmao

[@peagames2002]

Looking how chinese infrastructure has historical tradition to "crumble", don't think African cities infrastructure would hold very long if those were build by chinese architecture.

[@j-b-9610]

😂your not wrong there. Hope your ok over there 👍 stay safe

[@anfisapan6211]

As a foreigner I agree with you.

[@greenbelly2008]

I´m Argentine and I have to say our national sport is not soccer, it´s inflation 😩

[@inconnu4961]

Its a shame what the cabal has done to your country!

[@RealCherry8085]

Its ironic to see that countries like Argentina are in g20 even though they have so high inflation and less economic impact.

[@ramicane1671]

@@RealCherry8085 To be fair, at the time of g20's foundation we had a growing and important economy. Nowadays, that's not the case unfortunately

[@cyan_oxy6734]

​@@RealCherry8085 I mean if anything Italy being part of G7 and neither South Korea nor Austrilia is somewhat of a joke.

[@brawndothethirstmutilator9848]

National sport is the “paro”. Fernet con coca is like the Gatorade.

[@Raymondjohn2]

BRICS seeks to create a new currency, considering gold's historical role as a store of value and medium of exchange. However, the functionality and acceptance of a gold-backed currency in the current global financial system are uncertain. Creating a new currency requires careful consideration of economic, political, and logistical factors.

[@hermanramos7092]

The discussions and proposals surrounding BRICS nations' potential use of gold are intriguing. People choose to buy gold for various reasons, such as its historical role as a store of value and medium of exchange, its potential as a hedge against inflation or currency devaluation, and its relative scarcity compared to other commodities. Gold also offers diversification benefits to investment portfolios due to its low correlation with stocks and bonds. However, investing in gold carries risks and may not be suitable for everyone. Investors should carefully evaluate their objectives, risk tolerance, and financial situation before deciding.

[@martingiavarini]

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[@bob.weaver72]

@@martingiavarini How can i reach her, because I’m seeking for a more effective investment approach on my saving.

[@martingiavarini]

Catherine Morrison Evans maintains an online presence that can be easily found through a simple search of her name on the internet.

[@BQD_Central]

He explained why this is a fantasy.

[@earthling017]

As an Indian, I believe being clubbed with China is doing it more harm than good. However, I think India will continue to be associated with BRICS as it doesn't want to signal to China that it is completely in the western camp. India has some very dangerous neighbours, therefore it needs to play this very carefully.

[@jovydaskniuipys3898]

I have indian friends, i used to adore India, as largest working democracy.... but now, im so dissapointed, especialy, when India sided with blood thirsty ruzzia instead leading the world, with its potential...

[@Rojitos]

​@@snoopysnoops007 we've been allied to France since 1778, Japan since the cold war, Canada since 1955, Germany since 1949 to name a few. I don't know where you got your facts from but we definitely keep relationships with our allies for more than 10 to 15 years.

[@dopedrums]

As a non fellow Indian, I wouldn't exactly cry if you milked China completely bone dry. Maybe they'd stop with their border nonsense once for all.

[@中共戰士萬歲]

@surinamesurname There is no such thing called Sinophobia. Stop with the DagEating propganda.

[@bluegregory6239]

@@snoopysnoops007 I understand that India steers a middle course, back to the 'non-aligned' movement. As an American, I regret my nation's inexplicable support for Pakistan, no ally to be sure. I feel the US should have allied with India since Independence.

[@ZFusion]

BRICS needs India because it's hard to make words without vowels.

[@stlouisix3]

The non-European, non-Asian South African languages have a large range of clicks in them so if India ever left BRICS because of a battle with China, then BRICS could make use of some of those South Afcn click sounds to form a new name🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😅😅😄

[@TheVampireAzriel]

BRICS without India is SCRB

[@NickadeeSplit]

Haaaahaaaahaa COMEDY!

[@e.vangelios7285]

Pakistán will replace Brazil to fanally become the PRICS.

[@subasthapa8323]

No I can stand for Iran and Indonesia too

[@toshitaru]

I've been blursed with being born and still living in Brazil and I can tell, no one talks about BRICS or even remember it exists until some news outlet mentions it

[@KamikazeCommie501]

Nobody mentions G7 or remembers it exists in the west either.

[@inconnu4961]

'blursed'? As in 'blessed/cursed'? LOL

[@jamesabestos2800]

Makes sense pfp Btw how are you alive

[@toshitaru]

@@KamikazeCommie501I only remembered it existed the moment I heard the name, one heartbeat after that I forgot about it 💀

[@toshitaru]

@@jamesabestos2800 the secret is to get paid in US Dollars. Also beer and cigarettes keep you sane.

[@dirtyace1668]

BRICS is sort of like saying "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" but then also adding "hmm.... well, my friends are also my enemies but we pretend to be friends on TV"

[@josephcelestine1945]

No, Bricks was formed because the economic dynamics that are coming will overpower the current economics of western powers, and it will.

[@death_parade]

"There are no permanent friends in geopolitics, only permanent interests"

[@wingsoffreedom3589]

​@@death_paradee since when are interests permanent.

[@johnchristopherdelegero1728]

Yeah just like u.s sabotaging pipeline for germany, and yet u.s pretends germans as their friend how lovely

[@johnchristopherdelegero1728]

While u.s pretend deplomatic ties with "friends" whom they also sanction economicly. What a wonderful world.

[@MadBlazer89]

Meanwhile China is drawing maps claiming territory of it's neighbouring countries, including India and Russia...just lol🤣

[@Doughsz]

As an Indian, I sincerely thank you for this video. There are so many Indians who buy in to the “BRICS” idea but I hope more people can realize how dumb it really has become. It seems to me like just a propaganda tool nowadays used by Russia and China to try to increase their international clout.

[@puraLusa]

It's a "look at brics" not our miss management kind of technique.

[@reboundrides8132]

Because that’s what it is lol

[@deviildogg1]

Pretty much the truth. The main BRICS member all have super shaky or very loose connections to one another. India is just barely ok with Russia and China...

[@randomsandwichian]

The only other time I've heard of this is from my uncle who is staying on a visit, like it was a good thing. What does supporting Russia who's on a warpath sounds like a good deal?

[@Labyrinth6000]

Indians seem to be the loudest in promoting BRICS, I always see it in nationalistic Indian news channels

[@Pikaling3408]

I would imagine India will soon leave mostly due to poor relations with China.

[@erikvan9582]

@@baconsoup8346 Hope they can build up its millitary industrial complex indigenously,Depending on Russia is a securtiy risk,in every concievable way

[@sriramprasannaarikapalli472]

India won't leave SCO nor BRICS, even if there is large scale war between india and China. Indian govt makes decisions based on pragmatism not emotions. India would like to join both G7 And SCO or BRICS and remain neutral

[@anfisapan6211]

India always wants everything. They take benefits from both sides. And say they are neutral. Haha. Shame on this nation.

[@musa7606]

@@sriramprasannaarikapalli472 Yup. India is friends with everyone and no one. They take a generally neutral stance and play everyone off each other. This is why they held such good ties with the Soviet Union for so long... Not that they were best buddies, but it made sense to balance the USSR against the USA in their personal dealings.

[@j-b-9610]

Surprised India didn't leave when china's spokesperson basically insulted them to their face

[@kundanchaudhari3951]

India is a member in many global bodies especially the one's centered around China because it wants to be a counter weight and doesn't want those forums to be used against its interests in the region. Take Nuclear suppliers group as an example, China joined before india and now keeps vetowing India's membership.

[@daakuredpanda5782]

That is actually true.

[@abhimanyunath2001]

And also JUNK UNSC

[@i-am-rahulsingh]

As a Indian i would say, India should be an ally with other democracies like North America and Europe as It is a free and the world's largest democracy. We try to support non alliance but it's never gonna work you need to pick one, or you'll never be trust by anyone.

[@KartikChauhan__KC]

I think you don't have any idea how the world works

[@i-am-rahulsingh]

@@KartikChauhan__KC okk

[@shatzco]

Support Europeans? Our colonizers? No wonder we are undeveloped. China has built metros and railways and they are cleaner and better than ours and more in numbers, we have barely done anything. We have to focus on developing ourselves rather than fall for the lies of the colonizers.

[@samswe-fr2tr]

Yeah

[@butterfingers5404]

As a South African I fully agree! We are also desperately requiring a regime change . Why piss your biggest trading partners off ?

[@Thezftw]

If you have a shitty regime, they will turn to other shitty regimes for weapons and support so they can stay in power...

[@puraLusa]

To go with the populist flow of preceding to point towards "the mean west" for their own incompetence. Also, shady biz of selling soviet stuff back to russia and not puting money sales in government coffers.

[@--Traveler--]

even 60% of south africans admitted that their life was better under apartheid than the current regime lol. you know it's rock bottom when quality of life under discrimination is still better than a pro black communist state. and most bp in south africa arn't even natives. :D

[@hannesRSA]

Is it still all about blaming the 8% and shrinking white minority and therefore everyone votes for the party which plays race politics?

[@benlorevil2268]

Make sense !!! China forget so quick that America and west help him become a super power.anything people give you cant be taken away

[@carbonstar9091]

The biggest problem with BRICS is that it doesn't really exist

[@jeffersondaviszombie2734]

Exactly!

[@MasayaShida]

This.

[@RealCherry8085]

Alliance of most unequal by wealth countries in the world.

[@cpeterso]

It's a concept invented by a Goldman Sachs analyst in 2001, ironically enough. It's definitely not something that developed organically

[@patrickt49]

It's a fake association that pretends to be relevant.

[@pyt]

India's current role in BRICS and SCO is to ensure that nothing significant happens there.

[@psychopompous3207]

Hahah. Lol. Agreed.

[@aa-hb3tg]

Why are u pro west ? Was ur father from west ?

[@psychopompous3207]

@@aa-hb3tg Maybe because he wants to be on the winning team.

[@SelfProclaimedEmperor]

​@@aa-hb3tgbecause Russia and china are obviously evil and losing

[@naughtywizard]

⁠​⁠@@aa-hb3tg why are you pro china? does your father have low social credit?

[@shresho2817]

India is there for one more reason which is, India cannot leave such a big platform entirely for China. There's a saying "keep your friends close but your enemy closer," and thats what India is doing. And India is in SCO too for basically the same reason.

[@NeverGonnaGiveYouUp71]

As an Indian, I have no idea what you're talking about. China has like 70% of BRICS GDP, and Russia's economy is destroyed. So Russia wouldn't really be able to help us. So that increases China's influence even more. So aligning with the US or just leaving BRICS would be a much safer option than being in control of Communist China. When we previously tried communism under Nehru, we failed horribly.

[@bubullibooooo9928]

India the backstabber!! 😂

[@Nagvanshieus]

​@@NeverGonnaGiveYouUp71 leaving brics will be like a negative indication to China, it's basically a sign that indo Chinese relations are failing

[@samswe-fr2tr]

​@@Nagvanshieusborder issues enter the chat.anyways you guys like godi dictatorship

[@ItsjustTNT123]

As a south African, I can say that it is normal to just ask your friends "when's your power goings out".

[@GNMbg]

sounds like a Super Power to me

[@RealCherry8085]

I am from a BRICS country, and I can confirm that BRICS is an alliance of most unequal countries in world and if they all started working together then Inequality will increase more here.😂

[@ItsjustTNT123]

@@GNMbg We're a super lack of power

[@ferdinanddaratenas3447]

I'm sure they blame apartheid for everything, even though it disappeared almost 30 years ago.

[@stlouisix3]

@@ItsjustTNT123 Many South Africans are grammatically 'great' and would rather say: 'At what time is your electrical power scheduled to be interrupted, good chum?'

[@auggieeast]

India and China will have a hard time uniting, and China will never give up control over their currency by agreeing to use some international currency instead.

[@puraLusa]

China is not going to give up control of whatever, it's the model of centralized economy, everything must be under ccp control. Wether its currency or potatos.

[@daakuredpanda5782]

Bro, Indian here. Hard time? India would not thing twice to strike down something that would give China more control over the world economy. India probably is there in SCO and BRICS to ensure China does not score too many points and see if its possible to make alternatives/options for multinational organisations. It is not in there to unite with China.

[@vueport99]

They will use any currency they can print

[@Inertia888]

New England Patriots and Grateful Dead? Me too. Rock On!

[@auggieeast]

@@Inertia888 Recently hit 100 years of fandom between the two.

[@Matt_4170]

As a South African, I agree with your points. The South African public is unhappy with the ANC

[@HungryGhost999]

Beautiful country being robbed, sadly.

[@Matt_4170]

@@HungryGhost999 Definitely

[@bubullibooooo9928]

Must be why they keep voting for ANC

[@dylanvienet7923]

16:29 South Africa is struggling to keep the lights on, has rampant corruption and unemployment. The way you explained it basically sounds like Iraq. At least the latter went through a war which destroyed all its infrastructure. In the case of South Africa it just comes straight from incompetent governance and corruption sadly. Not a country you would want leading anything, in other words. Yet another fantastic video C-Milk! I was waiting for this one for ages and it was well worth it!

[@stlouisix3]

Irrraq actually got generously helped by Christian countries.

[@Labyrinth6000]

Guess South Africa was better off when Britain was in control.

[@troy5094]

​@@Labyrinth6000 when the netherlands was in control

[@eltel761]

It just like California then

[@josm3573]

​@@troy5094before they found gold and diamonds

[@VegaTakeOver]

BRICS cope from Anti western kids online is so funny 💀💀

[@red-pm5qg]

It's hilarious how you think BRICS is a legitimate counter to the west

[@aimxdy8680]

Look at their pfps, It explains why. They have anime pfps which explains everything.They’re mostly angry loser 14 year olds.

[@SenorPenor1337]

They hate us because they ain't us

[@lakshyasharma8519]

As a Indian I can say that India is wasting it's time in brics. China showing no signs of healthy discussion or debate. Forget jointly working on new currency. Day by day China is acting more aggressive on borders claiming Indian states and boycotting G20 summit in "disputed states" and jointly working with Pakistan. It's just pro soviet sentiments among Indians bcz of past which make India Russian relation stable. Although now Usa considering India as an ally, India slowly reducing it's dependency on Russian arms by being self reliant and imports frm France and Usa. Just wanna raise concern on anti biden govt sentiments bcz of his policies for eg cancelling quad summit recently.

[@dead-claudia]

if anything it feels like india's just using brics to its own benefit and none of the other countries have wised up to it yet

[@aquarius5719]

India is making lots of money reselling Russian oil to EU. So it is about convenience.

[@trollface7998]

Straight up for India, BRICS is a Chinese trap ... A Himalayan blunder just like SCO ....and bhai logs " Russia is not USSR ruled by Jewish olighars

[@mayankbakshi1367]

@@aquarius5719 Due to failed negotiations of rupee-ruble trade mechanism Russia isn't really getting any money in hand . For now 🌚

[@Yalla_Habibi_Cat1]

You know nothing about geopolitics. Gather some knowledge.

[@TheCherrybuster]

As a Russian living in India now I can confirm all that

[@zhongguo108]

In Goa? 😂

[@TheCherrybuster]

@@zhongguo108 no, never been so far))

[@zhongguo108]

@@TheCherrybuster well I've heard that place in India is swarmed with tourists from Russia since before the Ukraine conflict as a beach destination

[@TheCherrybuster]

@@zhongguo108 and that’s true😊

[@jithumapper7059]

​@@TheCherrybusterwhich state?

[@riogrande5761]

I didn't realize South Africa was in such dire state. No wonder Winston didn't move back there after leaving China. Actually, I haven't heard about BRICS. But now I have.

[@bumfist88]

Remember when they looted their stores clean and then they had armed patrols keeping looters away from their neighborhoods? It wasn’t that long ago, but it’s keep steadily getting worse and worse because groups of people destroyed their neighborhoods.

[@MeanLaQueefa]

Cape Town is like the last part of The Titanic, before the whole ship sinks.

[@gamerboyprateek]

As an India, I died when when you said "Why does India need BRICS?' 💀

[@ecoideazventures6417]

It is like the rich boys club is not allowing us in so we created our own middle class boys club!

[@doitwithnick501]

@@ecoideazventures6417ya but with one rich kid But some questionable income souo😂

[@baddbabylon]

It's true though, I feel like most of those countries at this point in 2023 are just going to hold India back, especially when you look at the nations looking to join; it's not exactly bastion of success.

[@DennisTheInternationalMenace]

Why does India need BRICS? India has been receiving investments from Western companies (especially those leaving China) and other factors... It's predicted that India will surpass China and become development status and possible superpower. They definitely don't need dumb as a bag of BRICS 😂

[@Shubham89453]

14 countries are interested in joining BRICKS including UAE

[@cityraildude]

You forgot to mention India's role in the Quad, an alliance specifically designed to counter China

[@halycon404]

​@@propletrelooxretlitre5705 Arguing is normal. Militaries in low level open conflict is not. Please name the last year China and India's militaries have not clashed over the border dispute. Even looking that one up comes under dispute by the two. Does it count if the skirmish took place in an entirely different country? India says yes, China says no. Usually. Except when the positions are flipped. The only reason it hasn't graduated from skirmishes is both sides have nuclear weapons.

[@marierocher4422]

Double edge game.

[@red-pm5qg]

@Propletrelo Oxretlitre no it isn't at all and the comparison of turkey and Hungary are completely different to India and China blatant ignorance

[@rudhra5957]

Yup my country is playing on both sides and yes its dangerous

[@cityraildude]

@@propletrelooxretlitre5705 I don't think the situation with Turkey and Greece. Or Turkey and Hungry. Or South Korea and Japan or Taiwan and Japan compares to that of China and India

[@Doctor4077]

I’m an economist that works with people in my country’s Central Bank, and what I find funny is despite the whole internet being flooded with news about the rise and eventual takeover of BRICS, it’s barely a talking point for our economists other than “so that’s still happening. Anyway.” And we’re literally neighbors with Brasil!

[@MakeAsylumsGre4tAgain]

“…anyway, about these CBDCs we’re going to trap everyone in while they’re distracted by all our BS” 🤡

[@-EJ-]

Even without getting into the politics BRICS just feels like G7 at home

[@TheGrace020]

But like an abusive alcoholism home 😭

[@RealCherry8085]

BRICS is joke, I can confirm this as an Indian.😂

[@birdstwin1186]

"mom can I get these shoes." "boy, you got shoes at home. I'll just tell your older brother to give you his old pair. Sure, they might be 2 inches too big, and he cut grass in them, but green is a nice color and your feet will grow."

[@devbro2310]

​@@RealCherry8085 keep your tiny nose out of this and study for JEE😊

[@Thezftw]

@@devbro2310 What is JEE?

[@petercollingwood522]

I'm 55 and from South Afirca. I remember our Geography teacher talking about the BRICS when I was about 13. That was just about when the fantasists started pushing the idea. When I emigrated from SA to the USA in 2000, it cost me 13 Rand to buy one dollar. If I were stuck trying to do that now it would be over 19 to the dollar. Did not realize how badly they had deteriorated but unfortunately not surprised. Probabaly the single most useless bunch of incompetents and downright unabashed criminals in governement anywhere on the planet. And zero chance of that ever changing. Sad to be sure. But when you look at the BRICS today. Pretty much all you need to realize is, "Losers of the world unite !".

[@bdeshpan]

Your geography teacher must have been prescient, to talk about BRICS so long ago when the term was only coined in 2001 by Goldman Sachs 😊

[@Sam_Sam2]

@@bdeshpanpretty sure he moved from SA before Brics lol

[@petercollingwood522]

@@bdeshpan It wasn't. GS might have increased it's popularization but it was a concept well before then.

[@stlouisix3]

@@petercollingwood522 that's still 2 and a half to 3 decades before BRIC(S) formed...

[@petercollingwood522]

@@stlouisix3 They may not have formed as an offical thing back then but the concept was around and that is the first time I heard of it.

[@awesomesauce980]

People trying to make BRICS work is like two people who have next to no shared interests trying to make marriage work because other people said "you'd look cute together."

[@lordbato]

LOL

[@zi.d7]

Bruh 😂😂😂

[@yohighness]

And you really thinks grouping such as G7, NATO and the EU are perfect? I pity you.

[@awesomesauce980]

@@yohighness I never said they were, you're literally making up words I never said. And if you can't tell the difference between those three organizations and a group of nations that were coined by an economist trying to predict emerging markets in the 2000s, rather than any actual organization between them all outside of the standard fair of most nations that trade with each other.

[@yohighness]

@@awesomesauce980 There are many, many similarities and shared values between South Africa, India and Brazil: culture, sports, democracy and political systems, etc. Using a phrase such as "next to no shared interest" is ridiculous.

[@based-hiro144]

Even India opposed the BRICS currency concept

[@theunknown4602]

When?

[@based-hiro144]

@@theunknown4602 i heard it like 2m ago so I might be wrong but I think indian foreign minister said something along the line of not accepting BRICS currency.

[@kimonryu1]

I always wondered why India would join BRICS in the first place. Possibly just to maintain relations with Russia?

[@ravenking2458]

Yes. Mr. Jaishankar has always replied that we had no plans for discussion of a bricks currency which is pretty much saying we oppose it.

[@ravenking2458]

​@@kimonryu1One of the reasons. Also, as one of the founding members, we can basically oppose any and every agreement that China proposes 😂. Also, with India there, it doesn't give China a stage to ridicule India and spread propaganda too much.

[@RealCherry8085]

I am from a BRICS country, and I can confirm that BRICS is an alliance of most unequal countries in world and if they all started working together then Inequality will increase more here.

[@ashifabedin]

YES SISTER...LOVE FROM BANGLADESH ...I HOPE BRICS WILL BE SUCSESSFULL

[@bapparawal2457]

@@RealCherry8085 You are learning Geo-politics from people who are not experts , don't have background in economics . Also they keep saying 1 reserve currency to replace. Which is not true. BRICS have mentioned basket of currencies which they are conviently ignoring.

[@alexismayalalancette5597]

I also think that the cultures are so very different, when shit starts to hit the fan will countries remain united?

[@shundred]

​@@bapparawal2457 Why would India join such a currency group, Russia wants it because it cannot use dollars, China wants it because of its competition with the USA. Even if that currency (or basket) comes into existence it will be heavily dominated by China as such a basket will be filled with mostly yuan. India already has a healthy amount of USD reserves. See how India is resisting the use of Yuan. India will be more comfortable to use currency of a partner like USA than an adversary like China.

[@johnwolf2829]

@@bapparawal2457 "experts" over reality, eh? Yeah, that's how Communists think alright.... when they think at all. Expert is actually a combination of two words; "ex" meaning has-been, and 'spurt' which is nothing but a drip under pressure. But by all means, keep clinging to your Priesthood of Hoodlums. I am sure the weakest and stupidest people will flock to your banner, just like always.

[@lancelessard2491]

I remember a saying I heard way back in the 1980s, "Brazil is the land of tomorrow, and always will be." Nothing has changed since then.

[@jyrrin]

lol i heard this in the early 2000s and that they might actually be breaking that stereotype. alas, no they did not - they're the literal definition of middle-income trap

[@marierocher4422]

Lol. At least they’re still hoping. That’s a great attitude, from the desperate people having lots of politicians destroying their hope. Windmills of your mind as the song goes.

[@jackthorton10]

Always look on the Bright side of life

[@juahl]

😯

[@WhiteWhistleBondrewd]

Never say never. I also lost some hope for Brazil (Im brazilian), but remember, things can change, and Brazil, even If not a good country, has a LOT of potential still.

[@OAlem]

It took decades to implement the euro, and that was among countries that have much more in common than BRICS do. . You don't just throw a currency out there. Just ask the Catalans.

[@seniorsergeanttomcroydon6401]

Didn't you hear they'll have their own crypto called Pooh coin. 😂

[@GameplayTubeYT]

Mickey Mouse Money 😂😂😂

[@dead-claudia]

literally

[@MeanLaQueefa]

The Euro was proposed around 1950 at the Bilderber Group.

[@OAlem]

@@MeanLaQueefa Wow, that's fascinating. It's fascinating that you are trying to educate us, but you are wrong on many levels. You can't even spell it correctly. The Bilderberg meetings started in 1954. A European currency was first proposed in the League of Nations by Gustav Stresemann in 1929.

[@kevinbyrne4538]

China's economy is collapsing daily now (August 2023). China's economy always depended on foreign investment and now the foreigners are leaving China with their money. So a country with very serious economic problems will dominate world finance? I doubt it.

[@MountainFisher]

My brother who listens to fear broker conspiracy people was telling me that BRICS was going to take the US down and I didn't know anything about BRICS. So I looked it up, even before the Ukraine situation and I saw the list of countries and I laughed.

[@inconnu4961]

But appreciate that the US seems to be devaluing its dollar, in part to escape the crushing debt it continues to collect, and people are searching for an alternative. The Euro looked like that alternative, but with all the green nonsense wrecking its economies . . . . .people are understandably nervous!

[@randomcomment6068]

Looks like 1984 super blocks are slowly forming..

[@meatrealwishes]

Yeah, my sis too bought into this nonsense. Total cringe.

[@octoslut]

lol you wont be saying that when they beat weak nato down.

[@maximepires2603]

Finally someone talks about this, literally getting tired of BRICS propaganda saying "X number of asian countries to ditch the dollar for BRICS currency.", I can't even get rid of that propaganda

[@RealCherry8085]

BRICS is a joke🤡🤡🤡

[@E4439Qv5]

Just gotta wait for their plans to not pan out and for them to shut up about it.

[@annoyingspore]

Why wouldnt they? Plenty of people use Yen,Yuan,Baht..uhh..not sure what else. Crypto? They trade somehow..Pesos, Ringgit. Hong Kong Dollar to Euro to US, australian, or singapore dollar. That Moskva terminal brain injury kind of keeps messing with the..cant remember what its called. Turkish Lira / 1 million?

[@herren49]

Shut up western, Asians will wake up

[@timd6990]

Fun fact: The BRICS block never did come together in the first place--instead, they were the creation of an American Goldman Sachs bond trader who identified them as a group of large, growing bond markets to pump American investment money in.

[@JohnDoe-qg7nk]

100% right learn your history

[@ApplesOranges123]

When Persia joins and Brazil falls out, they must be renamed.

[@annarboriter]

CRIPS

[@guillaumejarry764]

Iran is not an economic power 😂😂

[@LCTesla]

and bring in ... hmm... **looks around on map**... Kenya or something

[@willywonka4340]

wow, you guys here didn't get the jokes😂 PRICS 😂

[@HolyknightVader999]

PRICS!

[@lorisullivan327]

Matt, I’ve been watching your channel for a number of years now and I have grown to absolutely respect you on such a different level… thank you for your perspective, thank you for hitting subjects that so often don’t get hit with our butt-kissing pro CCP media… 👍🏻 and I too pray for the day where sweet people under totalitarian regimes are able to break free

[@aa-hb3tg]

USA will not dominate this planet No matter how much u cry

[@me0101001000]

I'll also add how India is getting much closer with the US, Japan, and Australia. You all know The Quad. It's primarily intelligence sharing right now, it seems like the start of a powerful alliance; a Pacific NATO, potentially. But of course, India has the longest to go. I have faith in India's journey, but cautiously so.

[@exurgemars]

You forget annual naval drills, US ELINT support to Indian troops along LAC, and increasingly growing closer to the US for supply of military hardware & help in forging its own indigenous defence industry.

[@tad27612]

You forget how hard Nuland and the rest of the blockheads in the Biden administration are trying to make an enemy of India.

[@Dushmann_]

​@@exurgemars There's a joint Indian-British Military training exercise underway right now, too. I think India has been too highly influenced by Britain/America to side with China. India is a successful democracy, I don't think they'd side with a totalitarian Communist dictatorship.

[@sriramprasannaarikapalli472]

Indians would like to have better relationship with Russia, China and America on equal terms making world multicolor world with no nation having hegemony

[@NikZ500]

The Indian PM Just visited Japan and Australia and Papua New Guniea. With major success and warm reception from the people as well as the political leadership. Can't imagine the Chinese burn😂😂

[@ralphmueller3725]

From an American perspective. The only way I could see BRICS working is if India led it. All in all though, I'd rather just see everyone cooperate.

[@pinkieanimation9691]

american perspective. enough said

[@questions_answered]

Well India does want to, if there is a group that India leads it will be regional group not a global because there is no need for India to lead a global group

[@FrangkyMind]

@@pinkieanimation9691 "oh no american opinions, its offensive KILL HIM" -Some Idiot

[@Nagvanshieus]

Bro India wants to reduce poverty and improve it's GDP per capita, we have no desire to lead a group of miserable countries which are similar to us. Even if India leads the group, China will definitely veto every move and decision, for Brazil and south Africa they are just miles away from us to establish something beneficial with them, as of Russia it's just a large puppet of China and is currently tangled in war.

[@diegorodrigovelasquezmeniz8026]

Usians

[@erikvan9582]

Yeah,if an organization needs India and China to work together closely that is not something that can decide what to eat for breakfast much less conquer the world

[@sriramprasannaarikapalli472]

India does face numerous challenges with china but Indian govt is pragmatic enough to isolate purpose of BRICS from issues regarding China.

[@erikvan9582]

@@sriramprasannaarikapalli472 BRICS is just posturing,India has no strategic or commercial use from any of these countries apart from a PR show

[@RealCherry8085]

​@@sriramprasannaarikapalli472 BRICS is a joke, tell me how much benefits India got from that, China still every now and then blocks India's UNSC permanent membership.😆😆

[@aa-hb3tg]

@@erikvan9582 u don’t speak for India India has no strategic use by aligning by west, west is mortal enemy to all of brics and hence its brics policy to contain and defang west

[@scottperry7311]

I remember in 2006 and 2007 when there was a ton of talk about the rise of BRIC and the end of the US as an economic power, then 2008 happened. Now China, Russia, Brazil, and South Africa are in even deeper economic straights than then. The only reason China is pushing BRICS is to use Russia, Brazil and South Africa as colonized resource pools and to eliminate the power of India. India is the biggest democracy in the world and will eventually join with the G7, it has strong ties to England, and is on good terms with all the G7 countries. India also increasingly seeing the advantage of having the G7 as military allies against China. China is moving into Pakistan a historic enemy of India, this will further strain ties between India and China and push India further towards aligning itself with the West. This is double true since the US is no longer supporting Pakistan, which it had done for decades to isolate the Soviet Union. During the cold war India followed a position of neutrality between the Soviet block and the US block. It saw an advantage in this policy, but there is no longer an advantage to support the Russians if it drags them into being interdependent with their biggest enemy, China.

[@death_parade]

A very Western viewpoint you have there. Western as in it is born out of the confirmation bias typically seen in a Western mind consuming information from Western sources. 1.) India is not looking for any "alliance". 2.) It is a fallacy that US is no longer supporting Pakistan. On the contrary, US is supporting Pakistan in the hopes that it doesn't slide more into the Chinese orbit. Words USA itself said when selling F-16 spares to Pakistan last year. 3.) Your reading of the Russia-China-India trilateral is mistaken. Russia realizes that China is not its long term ally. And India wants to prey on this Russian insecurity. In such a scenario, Russia will not "drag India into interdependence with the Chinese". Instead it will use India to ensure it doesn't completely become a Chinese vassal. I could also go on about India-G7 relations not being as good as your rose tint would have you believe, but I'd say this is sufficient for now.

[@aoeu256]

India is part of the anglosphere, but the developed nations have at many times prevented India from freely trading with nations they don't like (Venezuela, Russia, Iran, etc...) causing millions of Indians to die in poverty

[@Darkest_matter]

How is India bigger than Russia or America. (Russia is also a democracy)

[@Fhhddthbbchjkkog]

​@@Darkest_matterlargest democracy by population...

[@samswe-fr2tr]

​@@aoeu256when did our people died in poverty after 1947. We are self sufficient...

[@akatsuki9785]

I have no idea. India's economic growth is so fast that there is no other competition.

[@valetudan234]

It's 6 percent man, needs to be 7% atleast so that India becomes a developed country in 30 years

[@PowerfulRift]

It overtook the UK

[@shivamthakur6597]

@@valetudan234 it's 8.4%

[@moonbalancedd]

@@valetudan234 It posted 8.2% for full year 2023.

[@valetudan234]

@@moonbalancedd it was for that quarter not the whole year. Besides it should be 10% atleast to ensure job creation

[@sirsillybilly]

You made a large oversight not mentioning India is more recently aligned with America, Japan and Australia under the newly formed QUAD.

[@willpugh-calotte2199]

And maybe even South Korea or the Philippines could be interested in joining.

[@dead-claudia]

just furthers his point more lol

[@annoyingspore]

Tha is an officially named thing? Or just a reference?

[@willpugh-calotte2199]

@@annoyingspore The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, commonly referred to as the Quad for obvious convenience.

[@j.r.j-ia802]

Which was canceled by USA. It shows US is not serious.

[@concernedcitizens4110]

India is pretty much a member of every International bloc out there. This is their strategy to get the best out of both worlds however this could also serves as their detriment as neither East and West sees them as reliable partner.

[@DeeAiry]

Our PM dont belive in block system. We believe in partnership and independance. + we are poor 😭😭, we need more money and more partners.

[@STAR-616]

@@DeeAiry just because u are poor doesn't mean whole india is poor 🤡

[@AdarshKumar-ll7lz]

@@DeeAiry he is not Indian not a doubt he is Pakistani

[@STAR-616]

@@DeeAiry ok tera Delhi gareeb hai toh hai kishi ko mat la apneh bhikari state meh

[@Harshh..294]

​@@DeeAiryChandigarh>>>>>New Delhi

[@rockbarcellos]

I'm brazillian, culturally we're far more aligned with the US than any other BRICS country, we're western afterall, even though I learned that very frequently people from the US and Europe don't see Brazil as being a western country, which is very odd to me... but in any case, I hope we keep our western culture.

[@stlouisix3]

South Africa is also a Western country but its politicians worship Russia and get bribed to sell out their country cheaply to China.

[@dead-claudia]

tbf we see you all as having more in common with latin america, and especially europe is culturally distant from latin america to the point most there just don't understand much about the region culturally

[@rockbarcellos]

@@dead-claudia Brazil is also a latin american country actually, because, just like spanish, the portuguese language is also derived from the latin language, that's why it's called Latin America, and Latin America is also western, due to the spanish and portuguese predominant influence and colonization in the region.

[@InfinteIdeas]

To be "Western" in the colloquial sense requires Military alliances and/or participation, so that has just excluded most of Latin America, even if we consider you close to Western.

[@rockbarcellos]

@@InfinteIdeas by that definition Japan is a western country then? I don't think so, to be western is a cultural thing, and it comes from the people that stablished societies, countries, law systems, etc and etc, all of that is either fully western or at the very least predominantly western in the countries of Latin America. The only thing coming from natives or non western influence are a few terms and names, food, music, etc. but not anything foundational to societies, like philosophy, values or law systems.

[@xanthippus9079]

Brazilian here. Thanks for treating us like the joke we are. I honestly appreciate genuine opinions instead of the current gaslighting we live in.

[@golfwangenjoyer]

Hope situations in Brazil get better, love from Albania and USA 🇦🇱🇺🇸🤝🇧🇷

[@xanthippus9079]

@@golfwangenjoyer Thanks, man. I hope we'll see a better future for my country and a Nobel prize in literature for Ismail Kadare.

[@golfwangenjoyer]

@@xanthippus9079 ❤️❤️❤️

[@Barbosas984]

Larga de ser doente baba ovo de gringo 😂

[@blaketto]

Hope it gets better, cheers from Poland bro

[@daakuredpanda5782]

India's current role in BRICS and SCO is to keep an eye on China and make sure it does not score too many points!

[@death_parade]

You don't have the maturity required to understand Indian role in BRICS.

[@nerf2752]

@elphickidula6450 World must thank china and india because they buying oil and gas from russia. Imagine if everyone bought from middle east. Price will go through the roof. USA buying from russia too it is just getting refined in india. Kind of hypocritical of them.

[@valetudan234]

​@@nerf2752also, India is buying it within the price cap. Countries like Japan tried to buy beyond the price cap

[@rajbarman199]

Exactly India's role is to curb china in Brics and to make neutral.

[@edwellt]

I genuinely feel sorry for South Africa. Its heading towards the same economic crisis as Zimbabwe

[@sleepete12]

I don't and you should neither.... it is right way for what they did to the builders of the country... yes, those, who were butchered in Haiti too and look how that country turned out... always the same story.... I hope that all "whiteys" leave that hole and let it rot as it does deserve

[@shalomex-muslims2991]

I believe it is South Africa's corrupt black ANC communist government that is behind the downfall of a beautiful country that pockets all its riches for its own pockets that puts them in a below-junk status.

[@unscr]

They don't have power to get internet

[@juniormokwena2696]

Im south african and i live here as long as we have a new democratic party elected all will be well our current one is horrible

[@annabellelee4535]

So is the US, do you feel sorry for the US?

[@lr1179]

I live in brazil, we dont even know if we are in a democracy still, we've got plenty of problema to deal, brics is only seen as a means to trade more, maybe get scholarships and sell our commodities (which we love)

[@thiagobastos2756]

Only ignorant, biased, or misinformed individuals would think that we're not in a democracy. Our government may not be ideal, but we are still operating within a democratic system. Both the left and right wings in Brazil should refrain from spreading unfounded claims and focus on the important work that needs to be done.

[@lr1179]

@@thiagobastos2756 We agree that we have a lot of work to be done, basic needs such as security, health and education need to improve. However i'd say we live in an oligarchy, the oligarchs have a lot of power. The judicial system is acting with political activism, yeah the senate has the power to stop the supreme court, but they all depend on it. The democratic cycle is ending, we are living through the longest democratic period in the history of our country. I think i am younger than you (Gen z), so i may have less experience, but seeing everything that is happening in our country makes e fear that democracy is going to end

[@Thelaretus]

As a Brazilian, I can assure you that we as a nation don't really care or think about BRICS at all. It's always been this lax and mostly irrelevant trade alliance in which our President pays lip-service to a bunch of countries we don't really like. Don't get me wrong, we don't have anything against India and South Africa... we just consider them poor and weak, whereas China and Russia are strong but we dislike and fear them. As a general rule, Brazil sees itself as a great power which is pretty much alone in the world and often gets itself stuck in the middle of conflicts it doesn't care about. So I'm pretty sure this goes nowhere. At most, at most, it would cause us to not sanction China or Russia in the case of a World War. Brazil is one of the most peaceful nations in the world and we never fight in wars, but we tend to verbally endorse whomever the USA endorse... so at most BRICS would cause us to be neutral. That's it.

[@Thelaretus]

Also, as a Brazilian, I thank you for telling the truth about Lula. The unanimous praise I hear for him from international media is sickening.

[@MCKevin289]

I believe your only modern war was World War Two. My girlfriend told me that the saying in Brazil is that “we’d go to war when snakes smoke.” Which is why they have a smoking snake patch. Personally, I’m not a huge fan of Lula but I’d rather him than Bolsonaro. I see him like I do Joe Biden. The lesser of two evils.

[@patriciapalmer4215]

I'm still laughing about the Indian Army in "Lakh" who woke up to 200 Chinese army tents filled with soldiers inches from their border. They walked over, beat the shi* out of them and walked back 🤣

[@pranavingale6850]

Yeah 20 Indians killed and about 34-40 Chinese according to American and Australian intelligence, laugh now 😂😂

[@annoyingspore]

In where? Ladakh? I cant seem to figure out how one could possibly easily cross over the Karakoram or Himalaya ranges with their 8000m peaks and such, or wander way down through thick and thin along the Indus river from that lonely highway between Lhasa and Kashgar, somehow accidently or for any good reason. Unless one went through the Mustang or Bhutan or Myanmar or something.

[@annoyingspore]

In any case, its geographically obvious, since its mostly kind of a watershed/continental divide, so why they arent all grown up about it, I cant figure out.

[@thebestevertherewas]

@@annoyingspore The Chinese in the past 2 decades have built significant Border infrastructure. India on the other hand is usually a hand's off approach to it's border. This was true until very recently. Its changing now !

[@yugmathakkar4023]

Source?

[@deviildogg1]

G7 should just expand to include India. I don't know why that's not a thing since India gets invited as a guest pretty much every year recently.

[@dave_sic1365]

Yep back to g8. Russia is out India joins. And as you mentioned the indian government is touring all the significant events with g7 anyway.

[@deviildogg1]

@@lilavall4735 yet Russia was a member until Putin decided to be a dick... India is far more deserving of being the 8th member instead of Russia.

[@balajeepratham8200]

​@@lilavall4735India has a bigger reserve than all g7 countries except japan

[@herren49]

Because g7 is American dogs

[@yugmathakkar4023]

Nah thanks we're fine fam. Don't want to become yet another lapdog of America

[@johndeaux8815]

With the countries forming these BRICS, it’s only a matter of time until they crumble 😂

[@archanahalder8507]

As an Indian I feel ....China is the only reason why India does not need BRICS😂😂

[@sushilsharma4202]

Congrats! You fell for the CIA Propaganda

[@collinpearson5456]

​@@sushilsharma4202The only propaganda is from socialist countries

[@RajeshSoni-k7d]

​@@sushilsharma4202Bot Chinese Our Ideology is with Us not CCP

[@samswe-fr2tr]

​​@@sushilsharma4202ccp bot indian version

[@ViciousSquidy]

I think Indian diplomats realise everything you mentioned to an extent. Jaishankar (Indian foreign minister) has hinted multiple times about how he doesn't want India to be part of a China-led group. I hope India distances itself from BRICS cuz we'll perhaps grow EVEN BETTER in that case.

[@death_parade]

Hilarious how you are twisting around Jaishankar ji's words to make it agree with this one-dimensional video's flawed analysis. India is not planning to let China assume leadership of BRICS. That is what he means. Your argument could have been correct in case of SCO, but not when you apply it to BRICS.

[@Indian_Tovarisch]

Abe Tera dimaag ulta chalta hai kya Jaishankar ne west ko bohot gaaliya di hai Macron khud china jaake anti-americna comments karta hai Upar se south america mai China USA ko laat mar Raha hai

[@valetudan234]

​@@death_paradeIndia needs to have a larger economy to counter-weight China bhai, it's not so easy

[@death_parade]

@@valetudan234 Did I say it is easy? But to think that we are powerless unless we reduce the gap in economy with China is foolish. We did not choose this fight. It was thrust upon us. We don't have the luxury to sit back and relax until "we are ready". It is our duty to do our best irrespective of the gap in economic heft. If Geopolitics could be summed up so simply in a measure as crude as the GDP, the world would be a much simpler, sorted place.

[@valetudan234]

@@death_parade bhai BRICS headquarters lies in China, it's economy dwarfes us by leaps and bounds. Even if we choose to stay here, non cooperation with Chinese schemes would anyhow lead to BRICS' collapse

[@ourohiromi745]

Those comments about Argentina hurts...because they are true :c Tankies destroyed my country

[@kaptainkilogram]

Here, in the US, I'm glad we don't concern ourselves with "democratic" values that undermine Individual Liberty, but rather we concern ourselves with our "Constitutional values" that benefit our Republic.

[@KamikazeCommie501]

You might wanna tell 81 million of your voters that.

[@inconnu4961]

I doubt you live in the US then. There is ONE party trying to push 'democratic' values! Unfortunately, hiding behind those so-called democratic values are totalitarian values, such as gun control, destruction of the middle class, class warfare, and so many more!

[@ewoudalliet1734]

Ehm... democracy isn't necessary for individual liberties - see constitional monarchies - in fact, during the French Revolution the implementation of individual liberties preceded democracy; but also in England (see Bill of Rights 1689 and note the Magna Carta too in this regard) and it's the constitution - with a separation of power to avoid absolutism - that's quite a bit more important. That being said; (some form of) democracy sure as hell does help.

[@playedout148]

Teetering toward fascism.

[@SelfProclaimedEmperor]

Why are you so Afraid of democracy? Because you know conservatives are outnumbered by liberals.

[@Anonymous-ik3kc]

Good video, came from the podcast and this vid must be supported

[@Madokaexe]

In Brasil we have a sugary bread called "sonho" and it literally means "dream", because of that we have a famous phrase related to BRICS that goes like this "Padaria do BRICS só vende sonho", this roughly translates to "BRICS bakery only sells dreams".

[@ibgh0549]

Bro I've never heard dat

[@95manneya]

Do you think Luna won?

[@showdimorti7103]

@@95manneya Nope he did not

[@bjoardar]

@@showdimorti7103 Doesn't change the fact that his repulsive iq-void of a political opponent *LOST.*

[@pedrogmb]

Famosa frase que nenhum brasileiro nunca ouviu

[@Chuck8541]

Keep up the great work, man. You and SerpentZa are doing the real work.

[@shellysmith4369]

LaoWhy86 speaks the truth. When I left China, I went to the bank daily for weeks to convert my RMB to USD cash $500 at a time. (the daily limit) Each visit was a good hour of my time. The rest I left in my WeChat wallet and gave it away to friends and family.

[@dirkmantele5095]

Yeah, but they have no problem taking USD when you need to convert to local cash. Haven't been back for a few years now, but I would always start with 10,000 RMB when I arrived, but when I would leave , it would take my conversion receipts and an hour of my time in any bank to get USD back!

[@dirkmantele5095]

PS - I have a house in Shanghai with Chinese wife that's almost worth $5mm USD now, and if I sell it, I can only get 50,000 RMB (7500 USD) out per year! I'll never get my money out!

[@r.martin3494]

GOT IT OPEN. THANKS FOR GIVING THIS THE EXPOSURE IT DESERVES.

[@unconventionalideas5683]

BRICS is not new. It was formed as a trading partnership but it has had quite a few struggles in recent years as geopolitical divisions have become increasingly stark and different members have aligned themselves differently.

[@randomuruk7230]

​@jacksmith6015 Did it?

[@randomuruk7230]

@jacksmith6015 That's not the same statement as your first.

[@aimxdy8680]

@jacksmith6015Ah yes the boogeyman is really defeating the US dollar!!! People in the 2000s said BRICS will dominate by 2015-2020 but it doesn’t 🤣.

[@JohnSmith-ct4et]

You know you made a great video when it starts attracting the tankies and wumaos. Keep up the good work!

[@dabluflcn]

The whole BRICS thing flies in the face of why the U.S. dollar is strong. Stability and backed up by a power that can easily protect itself and the trade routes it uses.

[@lunchtime2960]

Spent 6 months in india. All the water is polluted. Trust me when i say they could use some damn regulation

[@χσχσ-ν3χ]

Trust u lmfao

[@BooO0oOoOoOooOoOoyah]

As an Indian all I want to say is that we Indians are hoping that this alliance will fail, India is looking for a way out of this mud puddle!

[@GruppeSechs]

Just as most Americans hope the "US-led new world order" fails.

[@rtasvadam1776]

@praveen mac But is this really the case?

[@Yalla_Habibi_Cat1]

Not really.

[@debabratadas9762]

clear your facts first, india is one of the country gained a lot from BRICS membership

[@BooO0oOoOoOooOoOoyah]

@@debabratadas9762 Yes, we did and that was in the past, given the huge social, political and governance differences, the group has not been able to live up to the expectations and is undergoing a identity crisis at the moment and like Mr.Tharoor said “Indian foreign-policy mandarins initially saw the group as a useful platform to increase India’s international influence, in keeping with its traditional role as a leader of the developing world. But India is plainly uneasy about efforts to turn the bloc into a geopolitical forum supporting Chinese and Russian interests “ and if China ever tries to include Pakistan and Iran , then I don’t think India sticking to the BRICS alliance will bear any any fruit for India and it will be more of a anti-West alliance!

[@rakeshbarman3486]

well as an indian , India's policy is not to leave any alliance empty of our presence 😅, we are in QUAD and have strategic relationships with US but on other side we don't want to leave BRICS and SCO empty too

[@BackInBlack123]

⁠@@Megabits10000 No, the purpose is to keep China from solely leading and dominating any group, and keep them in check.

[@HemantKumar-id3jg]

@@Megabits10000 Too stupid to understand geopolitics or neutrality.

[@Volv0x.]

​​@@Megabits10000re you saying USA and Switzerland both are this way too ?

[@therash09]

@@Megabits10000 every country makes its principles based on its interest, quite like the Western 'principle' of backing, arming and financing the global epicentre of terrorism Pakistan even as Pakistan continues to bleed Indians through infiltrations, covert terrorist operations and Islamist radicalization through decades. The West helped Pakistan against India in the 1971 Indo-Pak War, with the U.S. sending warships to threaten India and asking China to open a new theatre of war on its border with India. (It was the coming of the U.S.S.R. to India's rescue that thwarted the U.S. attempts to surround India, and this ultimately pushed an until-then non-aligned India into the Soviet diplomatic camp during the Cold War. And today, the U.S. has the guts to expect India to isolate Russia!) The West aided Pakistan's acquisition of Nuclear Weapons, which are today's the greatest liability to the whole world, given how politically unstable Pakistan is and how radicalized an average Pakistani is. India has principally never formed military blocs with any country, including the former U.S.S.R. with which India had the best relations since the Indian independence from Britain. India has formed economic and diplomatic alliances, though. Like the West's diplomatic alliances have historically targetted Russia and now China too, India's diplomatic alliances have historically targetted Pakistan but are now heavily focussed on China. So, Quad is India's diplomatic and economic alliance against China. Whereas, BRICS which predates the Quad, is India's economic alliance with its developing peers. Yes, China has marched way ahead now and is a developed country by some indicators, but like I said, the BRICS is close to 2 decades old, and at that time China had just started to take off at escape velocity! The 'principled' U.S. issued a statement a few days back saying that it does not want to 'de-couple' from China but simply 'de-risk'! So, even the U.S. does not want to severe its economic ties with China. Likewise, through BRICS, India is maintaining its economic ties with China. Nobody has economically sanctioned China more than India. Even the U.S. has not shown enough spine to restrict or limit Chinese firms and investments. So, given such blatant Western hypocrisy, all this discourse emanating from the preachy West, especially the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and Germany, falls flat on its face. The West should sanction the global terror epicentre Pakistan before lecturing about principles to India.

[@death_parade]

@Zillionaire You don't have any locus standii to call India "weak on principles". First off, you don't even know the first thing about Indian foreign policy. You want to look at one single dimension of India's foreign policy and then pass judgement. How naive and stupid. India is piggy backing on Western or Eastern alliances? What a misread! India is not in ANY alliance. It is created partnerships and dialogues (including multilateral ones). Trying to create a more equitable world, one where every single nation does not have to be pigeonholed into either of the US or China blocs, which is what Cold War 2.0 propagandists like you would have us do. India is trying to be the alternative. To solve this Cold War for countries that aren't interested in fighting for imperial reasons. In front of the principles India stands for, its the West and China that are "Weak on principles".

[@jays5186]

As an economist and as an Indian, when I first heard the term some 10 years ago, i chuckled a little

[@accountantthe3394]

That's why India's gdp is still down the gutter...no long term vision lol

[@jays5186]

@@accountantthe3394 what?! I guess you're here to just troll

[@accountantthe3394]

@@jays5186 How? For pointing out facts?

[@amanpathak2k]

@@accountantthe3394down? I guess I need a serious explanation to this..

[@ayushrajput2202]

@@accountantthe3394 bro just tell the mean of 'down the gutter' according to you

[@CheddarPerson_05]

They must be pooping BRICS.

[@davidmachemer1015]

Love your analysis. Now if I could just get my Chinese wife of 30-plus years (who keeps insisting, as I myself once believed, that China is the future) to listen to it....

[@dakshvasant6229]

@shadowbanned least hes got a wife unlike you

[@inconnu4961]

@shadowbanned Lots of decent people from China that dont buy what the CCP is selling!

[@totallypointlessvideos3832]

It would be if not for CCP.

[@dead-claudia]

@@totallypointlessvideos3832 literally i wanted to celebrate companies like mihoyo (behind genshin impact and honkai star rail) huawei and bytedance but the ccp had to fuck everything up esp on the software side bc they couldn't help but be extreme spoiled control freaks on literally everything

[@davidmachemer1015]

​​​@shadowbanned lol! China wasn't "the enemy" in the 90s! Meanwhile, regardless what she says, she came to the US for a reason and knows very well which passport she wants to hold.

[@DTinkerer]

As someone from South Africa I can confidently say we can’t even keep the light on then we are never going to take over the world

[@TheGrace020]

😭

[@DTinkerer]

Does anyone knows a KZbin news channel for Za?

[@inconnu4961]

@@DTinkerer I wish i did! I have friends in ZA ( havent spoken with in a while, unfortunately)

[@scottgordon1781]

Hmm , the CCP might come up with a plan to fix all our harbours , upgrade them for Chinese imports ? SCS is colonized , Africa next !

[@stlouisix3]

@@DTinkerer there are loads of news channels. One that is old and popular but is also unfortunately the most left-wing news channel in South Aa by far is called SABC.

[@RivaZA1]

As a South African I laugh at the thought of us being a powerhouse.

[@georgecoons6872]

oatman arizona now is mine gold since 1908. 2023. that arizona gold to fund canada. not america.

[@georgecoons6872]

and theres a new push to ban on all mining on federal and state by the liberal democrate of america today. could happen if this brush fire head gets ahead.

[@JL-yt5hy]

dont laugh, it was a reality for a very long time. SF a powerhouse of Africa.

[@NationalYouth677]

It was during the apartheid period when the white men ruled the state.

[@mrrichard6151]

take a look at your natural assets, you have plenty of wealth when the elite can't keep stealing your wealth, which is very soon.

[@umiluv]

BRICS has been around for a LONG time in the financial circles. We were using the term BRICS back in 2008/2009 at the top global accounting firms. This has been in motion for a long time.

[@forbeginnersandbeyond6089]

“…in motion for a long time.” What does that really mean? The term BRIC (later modified to BRICS) was coined by a Goldman Sachs economist named Jim O’Neill around 2001, over 20 years ago. It was a term of convenience whenever discussing these emerging economies then. Note that the term did not even originate in any one of the BRICS countries. It was not even an organization. The politicians of these countries picked that up for domestic political campaign. They have no formal organization, and no formal written rules and regulations. I hope you are not an economist or financial analyst. If you are, I won’t hire you.

[@death_parade]

@@forbeginnersandbeyond6089 I hope you are not an analyst of any sort either. Because I wouldn't hire you either. BRICS is for "domestic politics"? BRICS has no "written rules and regulations"? You people make me laugh with your ignorance. I mean, sure, I hate China as much as you do, but hating on BRICS just because you hate China is a bit dumb. But what else can I expect with both US and China flooding MSM with such propaganda about the BRICS.

[@yichengz]

@@forbeginnersandbeyond6089lol someone is hiring

[@mariotheundying]

@@forbeginnersandbeyond6089 you're saying that brics basically doesn't exist, if it doesn't, how are new countries able to join it?

[@somebodyoutthere1931]

So many people still haven't even heard of such an agreement

[@sparrowbe4k802]

That was one one his best ever episodes. Whether intentional or not, it actually explains international money exchange well too!!

[@dande5009]

This was a very insightful vid. I was looking to BRICS with great interest in the mid 2010s, genuinely excited to see middle income countries pull themselves up economically through trade and other means. It was pretty quiet on that front for years, but has reignited, rather transparently, in response to the G7, the Quad, Five Eyes and AUKUS. Just how dysfunctional a union between such conflicting nations is, I hadn’t really considered until now. It really doesn’t seem as promising as the headlines & incessant media coverage would imply.

[@death_parade]

The first thing you need to understand is that BRICS is not meant to be anything more than an economic alliance. It has no military dimension. Three of BRICS' five members are clear on that. Now if you can't tell apart the Chinese propaganda on BRICS from the real, publicly stated agenda of BRICS, then that is your own fault.

[@arjunraj823]

Its a helpful hand for member countries.

[@arjunraj823]

@cynthiac2739 in taking loans.

[@psychologicalboss]

BRCS

[@1Bob4All]

The other strange thing about the BRICS and the idea that the Yuan will become a currency which replaces the U.S. dollar is that, if I'm not mistaken, the Yuan is pegged against the U.S. dollar.

[@hasselnttper3730]

-Yuan/RMB is not pegged anymore. It was from 1994-2005. The Hong Kong Dollar is pegged to the USD.- I WAS WRONG👇🏻

[@1Bob4All]

@@hasselnttper3730 In an August 2019 article, Reuters says, "The People's Bank of China allows the yuan to trade in a 2% range around a mid-point it fixes against the dollar each day. That mid-point is based on the yuan's movement in the previous session and moves in currencies of China's main trading partners."

[@hasselnttper3730]

@@1Bob4All Aha, you're right. That means they're _lying_ about their currency being a "floating exchange currency". No wonder they're accused of currency manipulation all the time. Makes sense now.

[@annoyingspore]

@@hasselnttper3730 I thought the HK$ has always traded freely on exchanges? Of course nothing is totally free floating, since the issuer has sole control of adjusting money supply, border flow, internal interest rates, etc.

[@hasselnttper3730]

@@annoyingspore True. HK$ seems to be pegged to the dollar at 7.75 - 7.85 per USD. Not sure how this works lol 🤷🏻‍♂

[@Falcons8455]

i thought india and china hated each other. and Brazil and South Africa seem so random. Arent they both allies to the US?

[@rimondas6729]

No hate is superficial India's main enemy is China

[@indiafirst3676]

​@@rimondas6729India's main enemy is Pakistan. 2nd is China. Pakistan's Occupation of Kashmir is by far the most talked point of India's Foriegn Policy

[@valetudan234]

​@@indiafirst3676not anymore, Kashmir is becoming less and less of a priority in India. Indians are looking outward to other countries, Pakistan on the other hand is doing the exact opposite

[@indiafirst3676]

@@valetudan234 You clearly don't know the Indians or Indian Foriegn Policy then. What can be more of a priority than occupation of our own country own lands ?? Indians always think about their country first then everyone else. Pakistan is by far the biggest enemy of India as per Indians. China is distant 2nd followed by Turkey, Bangladesh, Azerbaijan, Qatar etc..

[@samswe-fr2tr]

​@@indiafirst3676why should we worry about a country which is a failed

[@Demonoid1990]

I feel like the US could see a big shift in the microprocessor market soon. Intel, TSMC, and a few others are building massive chip founderies here in the US. Supposedly most of them will be operational by 2025/26, which could hopefully help with prices and shortages. Even Nvidia the top producer of AI chips, is considering Intel as an option over TSMC to reign in it's bloated prices. The US and Canada also have direct access the the Pacific, Atlantic, and Arctic oceans. Which is great for exporting to Europe, Africa, or Asia. If North America can start boosting manufacturing and natural resource harvesting, we'd dominate easily. If I were a politician or policy maker, I'd be investing money in our ability to recycle efficiently. Air pollution is one thing, but we definitely need a massive expansion in recycling. Not just plastics, but also aluminum, steel, copper, glass, ect.. My intuition tells me a few mines, oil drills, or pipe lines are doing less ecological damage vs the amount of consumer crap we buy and toss out regularly. I dunno, seems like common sense to me.

[@viniciussardenberg706]

well yes, butthe people currently making policies wouldn't want you to be too prosperous that'd cut the MIC's proffits and into their backdoor deals

[@bluegregory6239]

One of the most insightful and correct comments on this thread.

[@humansvd3269]

You need the minerals to make those, fyi.

[@SirDankleberry]

So you're saying I should hold off buying a new GPU until then?

[@Demonoid1990]

@@SirDankleberry I'd say go for it if you really need it, though labor day and black Friday are coming up too. Supposedly these new Chip/Microprocessor foundries won't be operational till 2025/26. I'm still rolling with a Intel 9700k and RTX 2080 in my older laptop, still keeping me entertained. Though the housing market is on the verge of collapse, multiple trucking companies are folding and going bust, and varies labor unions/markets are about to go on strike. Hard to say how the market is gonna fluctuate. The country/world is kinda in a rough patch atm.. I just observe what's going on out there in the world, and try to use my intuition best I can. It gets a bit difficult when so much is happening all at once.

[@henryleung007]

Thank you so much for this. This clarifies my questions about Brics.

[@emeraldemerald6459]

Mine too.

[@praxrai1234]

As an Indian I had explain it to a friend that brics is like a group foster Children who are fighting over inheritance rights of they’re foster parents

[@benangel3268]

India is a US puppet. US is the one that spreads disinformation and propaganda. A country that has invaded other countries almost every year sincecit was created in 1775. It spends more on its military than the next seven largest spenders combined. Despite being the richest country in the world it does not have a social healthcare system, homeless people sleep out on the litter strewn streets. Depression, drog abuse and crime are rife. Shootings, including school shootings ,are all too common. It hasthe largest number of people in prison. Including people who expose criminals in high places, these are handled harshly. A handful of global capitalists own the media. Even social media is controlled with algarithims. They will pay this presenter here for making videos, but challenge the narrative and you will not be paid or will be shadow bannad. It is A country where whole towns are going bankrupt, Yet a massive amount is spent on maintaining 800 military bases around the world.

[@ser6Ijvolk]

What makes it even dumber, is that all of the foster parents are still alive and well.

[@bubba98]

Boy the “American war machine is propaganda” thing sure aged like milk

[@ryosaeba8718]

You are spot on, BRICS is heading into a WALL of Bricks 😂 😂😂

[@androsRoccha]

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼As a Brazilian I always saw this block as a fairy tale, actually, a horror story where in the end Brazil goes down in the sink drainage where Argentina is.

[@valdemaranusbekovich1472]

No bro, its fair, not like west

[@JL-yt5hy]

yeah they sink together.

[@juanpabloibanez1538]

@@valdemaranusbekovich1472 no, it isn't. It literally worst

[@jonybe5854]

No. Brazil is really a nice country to reproduce chinese race. It's better than latinos with samba. Go China💪

[@jonybe5854]

​@@valdemaranusbekovich1472 imagine if Brazil only had Chinese people? It would be a factory not a samba school

[@Matsonman]

The real issues will show when their independent corruption spills over onto each other. Corruption X 5 = massive headaches.

[@thomas18318]

Sorry to say but BRICS has bank called New Development Bank and for correction, US Dollar is fiat money, unbacked by any physical asset. A holder of a federal reserve note has no right to demand an asset such as gold or silver from the government in exchange for a note. The purpose of BRICS Currency is to reduce reliance on Dollar and BRICS member can trade without Dollar. Overall, I'm sure that the BRICS member nations are aware that the Western world considers the notion of a BRICS currency replacing the Dollar is a ‘ridiculous’ idea unless China and India become allies. So they are not idiots and of course, everyone want to run away from Dollar even thou Dollar has been a cornerstone of the global financial system for decades, and any significant shifts will occur gradually over time but is happening. No more sanctions

[@angelcabeza6464]

My home country Mexico applied for BRICS membership but was denied and recently BRICS asked Mexico if it wanted to join, and denied them touting its increase of the economy by working with US/EU guidelines, mostly lol!

[@joshuagenes]

Mexico seems to be on the up and up. Their workers have become more efficient than Canada's and massive amounts of manufacturing has been re-shored from Asia to Mexico for the American market.

[@angelcabeza6464]

@@Hello-zj4xm the USMC A or NAFTA 2 forces Mexico to compete using American or European laws like labor protection and security of companies

[@meatrealwishes]

China is actually losing jobs to Mexico. The two are rivals now.

[@water9097]

​@Hello! Well BRICS may not be useful alliance but nobidy asked or denied Mexico from anything.Mexico is not related . So thats making up events that never happened .

[@joshuagenes]

@Jack Smith Interesting. They used to side with Cuba against America at times so I wouldn't be surprise. To some degree it gives them leverage in negotiations with America.

[@Bhuv-]

As a Indian, we have to tread this line very carefully. We can't antagonize the west without punching ourselves first.

[@setsunatenma9467]

I mean j ai shankar is constantly making anti-west comments in whataboutism to deflect any criticism of india and most indias praise him despite him doing nothing but deflecting argument

[@pieter-bashoogsteen2283]

You need someone to help you with China right, what better ally than the US and by extension NATO?

[@Cris_the_coder]

Indian is punching itself in the face by buying bad weapons from Russia instead of becoming part of NATO and watching china scare shit less

[@Bhuv-]

@Pieter-Bas Hoogsteen but we also don't want to depend on the dollar too much. We need a different system to obtain oil. Being in the grips of US will make us dependent in perpetuity. Also as much as I dislike Pakistan, what US did to Imran Khan is pretty despicable. Also FYI, I work in the 3rd biggest US company as a developer, so I am not saying US is the worst or anything like that. But our interests need to be met by US too.

[@RealCherry8085]

​@@Bhuv- China always blocks India's UNSC permanent seat, While whole G7 and Quad Supports India being Permanent member of UNSC.

[@TheRealPuppycat]

Your videos are very informative and actually curb my " Fears about china " ❤

[@adroitghs777]

Excellent overview. I'm South African and couldn't agree more.

[@zain-pb]

You sound like the favorite boy in college who's jealous of the new cool kid that everyone wants to be friends with 😅

[@reboundrides8132]

It’s like “mom can we have the axis of evil?…” “we have the axis of evil at home”

[@fr.sapereaude3968]

Videos like this are very important. They help to alleviate much unnecessary fear and worry.

[@didiercolstoun9428]

So much gusto and common sense in your presentation. 😅 Altogether sarcastic, true and full of great sense of humour. Well done. I'll be keeping on following your site and so entertaining, and well informed news.

[@beemers417]

750 U.S. bases in some 80 countries and colonies around the world is more bases than any nation, empire or people in world history.

[@debater452]

All those contries wanted bases