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Yeah, we have our own propaganda though don’t we?

In fact, that and the corruption here makes the US not a whole lot better than any other country and as of late, we are in banana republic zone.

Every other country sees this so why stick with the USA? Why not start a new coalition like BRICS?

On 16 March 2023, Russia announced that it supported Algeria’s bid to join BRICS.[81]

On 25 April 2023, it was announced that 19 countries had expressed interest in joining BRICS.[82]
Countries that have applied for membership

Algeria[80] (applied in 2022)
Argentina[80] (applied in 2022)
Bahrain[83]
Egypt[83]
Indonesia[84]
Iran[80] (applied in 2022)
Saudi Arabia[83]
United Arab Emirates[83]

In addition, Afghanistan,[78] Bangladesh, Belarus, Comoros, Cuba, the D.R. Congo, Gabon, Guinea-Bissau,[85] Kazakhstan,[79] Mexico, Nicaragua,[79] Nigeria, Pakistan, Senegal,[79] Sudan, Syria, Thailand,[79] Tunisia, Turkey, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe have expressed interest in membership of BRICS.[86][87][88][89][90]

Many of those countries are small and a joke like Venezuela, Cuba but many are not. Brazil is big, and Saudi Arabia got the oil. Pakistan, even though a mess, has 250 million people. Then there’s Mexico. I doubt they would bite the hand that feeds them but if some other hand starts feeding them, who knows? It’s obvious they could care less what we think these days but they do manufacture a lot of stuff for us.

The biggest thing that should concern us:

BRICS countries will likely discuss the feasibility of a new common currency or similar at the 2023 BRICS summit in South Africa.[104] Fair and easier international trade as well as a major reduction in costs of transactions would be some of the reasons why the countries could forge a currency union, according to Mikatekiso Kubayi, a BRICS specialist.[105] Former White House senior advisor Joseph W. Sullivan, writing for American magazine Foreign Policy, asserted that “a BRICS-issued currency would be different”, as it would be comprised by challengers to the Western-led international that “in the order the scale of GDP, now collectively outweigh not only the reigning hegemon, the United States, but the entire G-7 weight class put together.”[106] Sullivan maintains that the BRICS would also be poised to achieve a level of self-sufficiency in international trade that has eluded other currency unions, such as the Eurozone, because of the geographic diversity of its members, which enables a broader range of goods and services.[107]

--- "My mistake. Still - a Russian propaganda publication registered in Moscow and owned by the Russian government. They chose a pseudonym and it just rhymes while it does not match exactly.

Whois returns the following data:

Domain:strategic-culture.org
Registrar:Regional Network Information Center, JSC dba RU-CENTER
Registered On:2010-06-08

Organization:Privacy protection service - whoisproxy.ru
State:Moscow
Country:RU

For the sake of clarity, I personally think all sides in the larger geopolitical conflict going on are heavily involved in "propaganda publication." The Biden, Putin and -- to wander into another Freeper passion of the moment -- Ukraine governments certainly are. One could guess that far more nations are as well.

What is certain is that there are geopolitical realignments going on, and we as America are playing it poorly, for having adopted the same game as the others. Lies are no substitute for truth, corruption no substitute for honesty, and propaganda no substitute for open discussion and debate.

As we are about 4% of the world's population, sooner or later, we will have to start acting like that is a reality. Whether it was Gingrich's "world policeman" chatter or Biden's "lead the liberal world," one thing is very clear.

$32,000,000,000,000 in debt and steadily growing is a very foolish game indeed, as was industrialization which the Clintons so accelerated and of which the likes of Perot warned about. The warnings from Washington in 1786, as with the warnings from Eisenhower in 1961, have been ignored to our peril.