Ilya Tuskanov – Sputnik Oct 24, 2024
Thursday marked the fourth and final day of the 16th Summit of the BRICS bloc, held this year in Kazan, Russia. Packed with dozens of high-level meetings and bilateral talks and summarized in a 134-point joint declaration, the summit also had plenty of symbolic meaning, which observers unpacked for Sputnik.
“The BRICS Summit in Kazan is undoubtedly one of the most important global political and diplomatic events of this year as it brought together the leaders of the expanded BRICS family for the first time,” Professor Alexis Habiyaremye, a senior researcher with DSI/NRF, South African Research Chair in Industrial Development, University of Johannesburg, told Sputnik, summarizing the summit’s results as the long-anticipated event reached its final day.
“The grouping has now become the global growth engine and its economic muscle is by any measure stronger than that of the old hegemonic grouping. One can say that it’s the official launch of the multilateral world order, the twilight of the US hegemony,” Habiyaremye said.
The Kazan Declaration, published Wednesday and featuring 134 provisions aimed at “creating a more just and democratic world order,” “enhancing cooperation for global and regional stability and security,” “fostering economic and financial cooperation” and “strengthening people-to-people exchanges for social and economic development.”
Specific provisions include consensus among bloc members on the need for a reform of the Bretton Woods system and the United Nations, further expansion of the use of national currencies in trade, commitments to strengthen cooperation in high-tech and medicine, agreement to continue talks on the ambitious BRICS Clear cross-border settlement and depository system, support for the Russia-proposed BRICS Grain Exchange platform, and an array of proclamations related to international emergencies, from the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East to crises in South Sudan, Haiti and Afghanistan.
“The most important outcomes are not simply the initiatives contained in the declaration, but above all, the strategic alignment of a such diverse group, and the gleam of the power it radiates by attracting new candidates such as Turkiye. Given the strategic role of Turkiye in the old hegemonic order, the presence of its leader at the summit reflects the measure of BRICS’ future in leading the global affairs,” Habiyaremye said, referencing Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s attendance of the bloc’s BRICS Outreach/Plus format meeting on Thursday, alongside nearly three dozen other leaders and senior officials.
Unlike that ‘old hegemonic order,’ the new one represented by BRICS highlights “the rejection of dominance and unilateralism,” and initiatives which “reflect a more balanced distribution of power and responsibilities,” the researcher said.
“Western international structures have used hidden tools such as ISDS (investor-state dispute settlement mechanism) and technology secrecy to keep colonial exploitation in place and loot the most vulnerable countries. The proposed new institutional structures” in the Kazan Declaration “are hopefully going to contribute to dismantling this unfair old arrangement,” Habiyaremye said, citing the BRICS Business Council’s New Technological Platform for technology sharing, and exploration of new dispute resolution tools.
Busting a Big Western Myth
“The main thing is that President Putin shows that [despite] Western propaganda that he’s isolated, he’s got a lot of friends. A lot of presidents came to Russia,” Dr. Patrick Bond, distinguished professor of political economy at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, told Sputnik, summarizing the main results and achievements of the Kazan Summit.
“They have 20,000 delegates in Kazan, they have all of these other activities; it shows that the Russians take this very seriously. And that was historic,” Bond noted.
With that said, there are issues which remained to be ironed out to turn BRICS into the global force for political and economic multipolarity it strives to be, according to the professor, who cited disputes over new members – some of whom face bilateral disagreements – like Egypt and Ethiopia and their quarrel over water security. “So I think it was smart not to have new members this year and to wait until the old ones are digested,” Bond said.
On dedollarization too, serious work remains to be done, according to the professor. “I think that the essential dilemma is that many of the BRICS – South Africa, India, Brazil, have financial sectors that are tied to the dollar in a way that obviously Russia and Iran no longer are because of sanctions. And new members including Saudi Arabia potentially, the UAE and Egypt, which are also very tied to the United States.”
Dedollarization is critical, Dr. Bond believes, emphasizing that as things are, the US Federal Reserve “prints money and then raises the interest rate and creates havoc in both cases across the world. I would attribute a great deal of the inequality [globally] to the US Fed’s loose money, its bailouts of its own banks. So we really need to see something different.”
Another question relates to the BRICS’ consensus on reforming of Western-led international institutions, with Bond expressing concerns that “continuing to rely upon the WTO, the IMF, the World Bank and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change” may “mean that we still have excessive interconnections” with the Western-dominated order, and inferring the need for something fundamentally new. The same goes for the BRICS New Development Bank, which is “still lending in dollars” thanks to difficulties in finding consensus to the contingent reserve arrangement as an alternative to the IMF, Bond said.
Diplomacy Vs. Destabilization
Ultimately, what makes the BRICS bloc’s Kazan Summit and “the need for dialogue so important” right now “is the particular juncture in the economic order, whereby emerging economies produce more than the previous hegemons but are confronted with constant threats of conflicts as the West does not wish to go down without a fight,” Professor Habiyaremye emphasized.
“Dialogue is important to avoid the chaos that the West wants to inflict on the global community just to stay on top. It’s though dialogue that the unstoppable transition from the old to the new world order can be achieved without destroying the precious lives of multiple communities,” the observer concluded.
We already understand that the Scum have arranged all this and that Russia has no more power than America
B’bye UK… 👋
B’bye USA.. 👋
yup the NWO is coming from the East, as predicted
masonic left hand in jacket from Vlad & Xi…all theatre
Why are puppet putin and puppet xi reaching for their breast pockets?are they afraid of pickpockets?i would be wary too,of an ayrab and a negro standing next to me .
This behaviour can be observed in any multikultural shithole.the whites and yellows frenzily holding onto their bag. whenever they spot an ayrab ,or other kind, nearing their trajectory. These civilised peoples hold their breath until the potential threat of thievery has passed.
It’s reported the US is up to mischief in the Georgia elections with its NGOs and pollsters interfering over there. The US should be looking after its own state of Georgia not the post-USSR state of Georgia. Many of their own Georgia citizens are still without shelter, food and water after Hurricane Helene, but all they care about is Georgia turning towards “the Russian orbit”. It was/is Russian. It’s certainly not American.
Mick has got it right and the power brokers of the West are also just as Masonic. The globalists and principal money changers of the world are masters at subordinating everything to alternatives both sides of which they control, and all of this alleged polarity between BRICS and the West is as fake as the Coca-Cola vrs. Pepsi advertising charade of the past. It is the same junk.
What totalitarian order do you prefer to be “dominated” by – the alleged “New (multilateral) World Order, or the “New (unilateral) Word order.”? That is the choice these WEF NWO SOB puppets are now posing to us, with the underlying assumption that we all “need” a globalist government to make us “safe” from the wars and crises “they” (the same people) have been orchestrating over the past 60 years.
It does not matter what they want to call it, we in the West under either under the “multilateral” form where various totalitarian power blocks share their powers with one another for mutual power-mogul gain, or where there is one all-powerful universal government (which in any case was never, every possible in their lying and corrupt minds), their plan for us especially in the West will be one of total subjugation to their globalist standards. Their plan is to have one government body administering some universal powers and for the other blocks to have various exclusive powers over their subjects. What they are trying to do is to leapfrog our nations out of the reach of the residual democratic controls we still believe we have, despite all of the obvious vote rigging and issue control they have been imposing on us.
Covid actually is the perfect model of how things are to be under their globalist New World Order. All of these dolts in the above photo, together with their subservient governments, faithfully played the unilateral globalist tune during Covid, in order to help usher in the pre-planned globalist UN Agenda ends. The governments in Russia and China, in particular, if they were in any ways really free from the “dominance” and unilateral globalist controls being imposed by the Western powers, would not have had to go along with any of the BS, but they all did, assuring the world through their own fake-news sources of their compliance with the unilateral repressive measures. Their unilateral controls in their own power blocks were however respected by the way they were allowed to impose the repressive measures on their people, and they were permitted to concoct and administer their own “vaccine” substances in which they all (unilaterally) lied to their people that the jabs would make them “safe”, as if they were all reading from the same globalist script – which they were. It was exactly the same script as in the West, although the potions in the West in retrospect have proven to be far more harmful to the subservient people, as far as we know, than to those in the East.
It there is less adverse dominance for the people in the BRICS nations than for those nations still faithful to the US dollar, that does not mean that the overall globalist plans will entail either for them or for us that anything in the way of an escape from the totalitarian and repressive measures planned for the globalist movement. Rather, what either a multilateralist world order or a unilateralist one will simply mean is a leveling to the repression levels as we find today both in Russia and in China – the two leading nations of BRICS. Likely in time (or even by 2030 in they can keep their plans on track) the incomes and standards of living for most of the people in our nations will be reduced to that of the more global standards, and even eventually perhaps to that of India. The goal of globalism is not to make us safe from anything, and certainly not to increase standards of living to Western standards. It is to level the entire world to globalist standards, and also most likely to cull our numbers down to their fake sustainability standards in the process. More ostensibly, their plan is to increase the powers of the powerful on a global scale at the expense of the common people everywhere.
This is all very fine with the plutocrats of the West and those everywhere else who are in control of vast economic powers through their multinational financial institutions and corporations, and who have been busy outsourcing virtually everything of value to nations offering very cheap labor, in order to capitalize on, and to take over all of our first-world markets while further draining away their profits from us into their off-shore holdings. The entire globalist movement is one of sustainability pretexts in order to set up international power structures which dominate and exploit wherever then can. It is mainly made up of those who control the international and national money powers over credit and debt, and those who claim to own most of the assets in the world, and it is embedded with a cult of Masonic, socialist, Illuminati, and Kantian idealists which grew out of the 18th century when it became Kosher to reject Christianity.
Instead of mending the errors and corruptions of organized religion for national orders based on the rule of law, they threw out the baby with the bathwater, and that is why today there is absolutely NO REAL MORAL checks on the extremely evils methods these neocons, socialists, secular humanists are utilizing in their globalist quest for a world government, which they have planned to incorporate with both unilateral and multilateral totalitarian powers over us.
Small nations, small businesses, and ordinary people have to be protected from the exploitation, evils and plundering of the more powerful, which protections can only come from the people themselves. They will not come from the rich and powerful exploiters who have gained their wealth and power though dishonest and evil methods, nor from any of those running our nations and who are trotting out various forms of their “New World Order”. The laws, constitutions, and charters of rights these people have been credited with giving to us, have miserably failed during Covid, and in fact they have miserably failed on virtually every other issue in relation to our basic rights and freedoms. They are systematically being used by the courts and by government tribunals to further enslave us.
Mick and Fred already mentioned the overtly Masonic gesturing of Chabad Vlad and the dicktatorr chink. What I found equally interesting / concerning is it sure looks more like someone in a rubber mask posing as Pukin’ rather than the real thing.