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Stierlitz

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India and Brazil are resisting China's attempt to rapidly expand BRICS to increase the political influence of the group and counter the US hegemony, according to officials familiar with the matter. "China has repeatedly lobbied for expansion during these meetings," they said.

Brazil wants to avoid expansion partly due to concerns about unilateralism, while India seeks strict rules on how and when other nations can approach the group, without formally expanding the bloc. Any decision will require consensus among the members who will meet from August 22 to 24.

India and Brazil aim to use the summit to discuss the possibility of bringing in other countries as observers, according to the officials. South Africa supports discussing different membership options to accommodate this, but does not necessarily oppose expansion, said the secret report.

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Stierlitz said:
India and Brazil are resisting China's attempt to rapidly expand BRICS to increase the political influence of the group and counter the US hegemony, according to officials familiar with the matter. "China has repeatedly lobbied for expansion during these meetings," they said.

Brazil wants to avoid expansion partly due to concerns about unilateralism, while India seeks strict rules on how and when other nations can approach the group, without formally expanding the bloc. Any decision will require consensus among the members who will meet from August 22 to 24.

India and Brazil aim to use the summit to discuss the possibility of bringing in other countries as observers, according to the officials. South Africa supports discussing different membership options to accommodate this, but does not necessarily oppose expansion, said the secret report.

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BRICS in my opinion isn't as important as it is made to be today, the same as SCO. It's mostly good for its symbolic and rhetorical reasons, but above that, not much concrete stuff. All the concrete stuff that is happening for China geopolitically today is happening on a bilateral, exclusive level.

Those countries that want to join BRICS probably already all have many different separate partnerships with China going on, so I don't think that China is losing much.

There is BRI, FTA, yuan swap agreements, constant government and ministry meetings and different contracts, Chinese summits and platforms for different continents, joint conferences with different regional, subcontinental, and cultural and ethnic-based organizations, etc...

Also to add, at this point in time, China doesn't need to blunt the power of the West in those kinds of 2001 and 2008 ways, it is grown so much that I think it should stop giving BRICS, and SCO, so much attention, and focus mostly on creating its own exclusive kind of influence, which I think is already happening.
 
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TK3600 said:
Can anyone sum up the Niger conflict recently?
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To add on what @Serb excellent write up on the current Niger brewing conflict with Western/U.S./France backed government that was recently deposed here's a primer from Al Jazeera about Niger. Take note that just 4 months ago SOS Blinken visited Niger and touted its supposed stellar democracy not to mention to prop up and protect their interests in the country and region from the alleged Russian maligned intentions and "encroachment" into that part of West African country.

 
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Bellum_Romanum said:
To add on what @Serb excellent write up on the current Niger brewing conflict with Western/U.S./France backed government that was recently deposed here's a primer from Al Jazeera about Niger. Take note that just 4 months ago SOS Blinken visited Niger and touted its supposed stellar democracy not to mention to prop up and protect their interests in the country and region from the alleged Russian maligned intentions and "encroachment" into that part of West African country.

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What is the most interesting to me personally is how the hell the US which was left with basically only a handful of countries under its full control in Africa now manages to also start losing them one by one thanks to Russia, and that is in the moment when Russia is engaged in a full-scale war too. It is beyond me, wasn't the West saying that Russia has a GDP the size of Italy, so why the hell do they keep losing more and more African countries to Russia in a clear trend? If that is true that they are that much more economically powerful, then the only logical conclusion that comes from that is that the West is extremely stupid, and despite such overwhelming advantage in sheer power, they have no basic efficiency, common sense, life skills, or geopolitical knowledge to understand how to approach these African countries geopolitically and rationally and utilize that bigger bag advantage to keep counties on their side in the first place. I think we still give them too much credit, they are basically now turned fully braindead, only surviving due to all those centuries-old accumulated advantages and resources and old glory.
 
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Serb said:
What is the most interesting to me personally is how the hell the US which was left with basically only a handful of countries under its full control in Africa now manages to also start losing them one by one thanks to Russia, and that is in the moment when Russia is engaged in a full-scale war too. It is beyond me, wasn't the West saying that Russia has a GDP the size of Italy, so why the hell do they keep losing more and more African countries to Russia in a clear trend? If that is true that they are that much more economically powerful, then the only logical conclusion that comes from that is that the West is extremely stupid, and despite such overwhelming advantage in sheer power, they have no basic efficiency, common sense, life skills, or geopolitical knowledge to understand how to approach these African countries geopolitically and rationally and utilize that bigger bag advantage to keep counties on their side in the first place. I think we still give them too much credit, they are basically now turned fully braindead, only surviving due to all those centuries-old accumulated advantages and resources and old glory.
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Bro Russia gave them hope (independence) and China gave them the inspiration. So right in our eyes we see a real G2.
 
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So what's happening is basically the next step in Africa freeing itself from its old colonial masters who are still pulling the strings behind the scenes through puppet leaders. The West isn't as strong as it used to be, and at the same time, countries like Russia and China are getting more powerful. This means countries in Africa are getting the chance to finally break away and do their own thing.

This isn't just happening in Niger, but all over the place. We've seen it recently in nearby countries like Mali and Burkina Faso, and it's been a pretty steady trend.

What makes Niger a bit more special, though, is that it's like a missing puzzle piece for Russia and China, helping them connect their influence from the Middle East all the way to the Atlantic (create some kind of a belt as illustrated below).

Plus, Niger is an especially big deal for France because a third of their electricity comes from nuclear power, and a whole lot of that depends on Niger's uranium. It is even more important now because France is already under the energy and inflation crisis presently.

Back in the day, West Africa was the heart of all the colonial business because of its geography and resources, so it's the last place where the West still has a pretty tight grip on Africa. Everywhere else, though, people are more or less free of their hegemony, and West Africa is the last place.

The West is trying to hold onto that isolated power and maybe even start a war to put a puppet leader back in charge in Niger. But, there are other countries nearby that aren't keen on Western influence, and they've said they'd have Niger's back, they are mentioned in the Tweets below (those red countries basically and those circled on the map).

If things get real and war breaks out, it could turn into a huge proxy clash over control of this big chunk of Africa. If that happens, I think that Russia, China, and Iran, others, would probably also step up to proxy help Niger and its allies against the West and anyone else still under the West's control (ECOWAS). Algeria is also already pretty much secured in terms of allowing weapons to pass through their territory to help Niger.


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There is now a literal wall of countries blocking Europe from stealing African oil:
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1686339404548218881
 
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