Expect BRICS

Nothing much of any great excitement is happening currently on the world stage. It never does when the US despatches Envoys – a useful form of international Killjoy – to world hotspots. But the stinky and cloying atmosphere of the latest round of that form of somnolence inducing effusion is now beginning to clear and the fireworks, subdued for a while, will begin once again – with, I expect, and hope, renewed vigour.

We now need some other form of invigoration to stimulate global affairs to become interesting again. Recent Eurasian affairs, like at the SCO, have been meaningful within that part of the world, but we need something more global to stimulate the global economy right now. I am anticipating that ‘something’ will be the 18^th BRICS Annual Summit scheduled to take place this coming weekend of 12-13 September at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, India. I expect great things to emerge from that, what is becoming, an ‘annual’ stimulation source.

I am fully aware of the verdict of the online doomsayer crowd who seem to delight in undermining the BRICS situation, currently laying the organisation flat and inert as if on some form of morgue slab. And by doing so, revealing their complete lack of understanding of the real situation. BRICS is not dead, splitting, nor suffering from defections by some members. The organisation is far too important for that, and is actually set up to enable and to cover the mutually beneficial grouping of many different types of national cultural and political genres which can be resolutely held together, not by ‘sameness’ or adherence to some authoritarian dogma (as all western unions of nations are required to be), but by recognition of those ‘mutually beneficial’ terms under which they can all operate, each member state retaining its own national sovereignty, while doing so. That is what makes BRICS a truly great and globally satisfying development which many nations, awakening now to the failings and dominatory pressures under which affiliation with western led movements have always suffered. This BRICS Summit, under Indian presidency, is being set up to be just as successful as the previous Brasil one – which was also pre-maligned to be a failure by many – was. I feel sure we are going to see BRICS led advancement in world affairs coming out of the weekend’s proceedings. The BRICS organisation is now too big and too globally significant to the majority of independent peoples to fall to perceived petty differences. Is that too difficult to understand? Or simply the purview of those who wish to wilfully misunderstand.

BRICS is not building a new and exclusive ‘bloc’, but building options to satisfy the needs of those nations for whom the ‘bloc’ concept has run its course. A case of ‘inclusion’, not ‘alignment’…

BRICS Is Not Replacing the Dollar – It Is Building Options by Abbas Hashemite – New Eastern Outlook – Sep 8, 2026

As an inducement for you to read the complete article I will quote here a single section paragraph which illustrates what I mean.

Inclusion, Not Alignment, Is BRICS’ Growing Appeal

Due to the group’s inclusive policies and constructive role, countries with diverse and conflicting ideologies are cooperating under the BRICS framework. Tensions between New Delhi and Beijing have also started to decrease. The two sides have repeatedly shown their interest in reducing bilateral tensions and resolving mutual issues diplomatically. In 2025, direct flights between the two countries resumed after 5 years. Although bilateral issues remain unresolved, trade and commercial relations have been restored, signaling a mature diplomatic relationship between the two sides, something Western nations lack.

…plus a single statement of intent and ambition…

For the founding members of BRICS, the motive is not to convert the organization into a bloc. Their actual ambition is to persuade the developing world through openness, inclusivity, and mutual progress.

These are great and in fact revolutionary ideas for the continuation and fulfillment of the modern world.

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