JonPreston: "Each addition to BRICKS should be a guide for you Neocons"
BRICS as expanded to date:
I see, you're talking about BRICS:
- Originally:
- Brazil
- India
- Russia
- China
- South Africa
Newly added:
- Egypt
- Ethiopia
- Iran
- UAE
Cold War Non-Aligned Countries, still active today:
Applicants:
- Algeria
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Belarus
- Bolivia
- Cuba
- Kazakhstan
- Kuwait
- Palestine
- Senegal
- Thailand
- Venezuela
BRICS countries total to about 1/2 of the world's population, 1/4 (nominal) to 1/3 (PPP) of the world's GDP, about 1/5 of the world's defense spending.
Around 4% of international trade is done in BRICS currencies, and that is almost entirely the Chinese Yuan.
The remaining 96% of world trade is done in Dollars (US, Canadia, Australian, Singapore), Euros, Japanese Yen and British Pounds.
So, a list of BRICS countries leads to two questions, for starters:
- Which of these countries do you consider to be "US puppet states" and why did you think they were?
- What is different about BRICS today, that you think makes BRICS more threatening to American interests than it was when first formed in 2010?