Posted on 10/11/2024 12:05:56 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
Most finance ministers and central bank chiefs from the BRICS group of countries did not attend a high-level meeting in Moscow on Friday ahead of a BRICS summit later this month, sending more junior officials instead, official documents showed.
Finance ministers from Egypt and the United Arab Emirates and the head of Iran's central bank were present as Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov called for the creation of an alternative to the Western-dominated global financial system.
But finance ministers and bank chiefs from China, India and South Africa stayed away, sending deputies or more junior officials instead, a day after Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov accused the West of pressuring countries not to attend the BRICS summit.
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Well, so much for that. The BRICS experiment has crashed and burned. Putin’s new Soviet Union will be belly up by Christmas.
The Chinese Communist Party will eat BRICS lunch
To suggest that something has "crashed" would suggest that it had taken off. BRICS has been a talking shop with nice travel junkets but nothing concrete.
Since it hasn't taken off, it couldn't "crash"
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