One of those things that shows you the relative shallowness of BRICS as an entity-if you can even call it that-I suppose it’s more so of an association. People are saying “it’s the end of the (petro)dollar!” but really BRICS is an empty facade and those parallel institutions that are emerging to challenge US hegemony have nothing to do with BRICS itself, just its member states-China in particular. Egypt and Ethiopia would go to war before they meaningfully challenged American hegemony as one (GERD).

I simply do not subscribe to the idea that so many on here have that BRICS in its current or even near-future form is some massive game changer in global politics. There are more important institutional changes in the global infrastructure in the past 10 years, mainly stuff led by China, which are not related to BRICS outside the “C” being China.

More importantly-the acronym is RUINED and I am very upset.