Neither more nor less than the “reform of the UN multilateral system, the international financial system, trade and development“, as preliminary steps to stop global warming and put an end to the multiple wars that ravage the world. That is the BRICS proposal reaffirmed at the summit in Kazan (Russia) that ended this week. It seemed advised by Sun tzu– Defeat your enemy without fighting. Neither the US nor Europe nor Canada nor Japan were at that summit.
While 85% of humanity gathered in Kazan at the BRICS Summit (initially an acronym for Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, where Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, the United Arab Emirates and also Saudi Arabia have now joined (there is a clear desire to integrate Africa), and another dozen countries – including Venezuela – have requested entry, The decadent Europe continues to carry the orders of the United States to which the only thing left to maintain its hegemony is to fill the world with wars.. Areas of traditional European influence such as Africa and Latin America have begun to move towards another place.
Two years ago, Ukraine and Russia wanted to sit down and negotiate peace – which, as we have been saying, will include returning Crimea to Russia, making Donbas an autonomous region and guaranteeing Ukrainian neutrality with respect to NATO – but the US was not interested. We have heard American senators talk about the convenience for American interests of a nuclear war in Europe. He used for this Boris Johnsonwho loudly staged the need to continue the war and forced Zelensky to get up from the table, while the clumsy European Union, the same one that is tolerating the genocide in Gaza as a prelude to what could happen on the European continent itself, promoted war instead of supporting peace.
Germany has allowed the US to blow up the Nordstream 2 gas pipeline, as well as the imposition that it buys the more expensive gas from Washington, in the same way that Spain once accepted as president of Venezuela from Juan Guaidó and the sanctions on the government of Nicholas Ripewhile both trumpsame as Obama and Biden They have continued buying Venezuelan oil. It is not that Europe is cowardly, but that it is also not representing the interests of Europeans.
The BRICS are the world that wants to be born while Europe, the US and Japan (all with an aging population, in debt, with a more unequal social structure than at any other time in history, incapable of humanely managing immigration and technologically surpassed by China), They are the old world that refuses to die and that does not understand that its survival depends on negotiating with the BRICS and not continuing to be hooked on the deadly car of the United States. It is enough to look at scientific and technological production in the world to see that China is in the lead (23.4%), followed by India (23.0%), compared to the United States (9.2%) and the European Union (11.5%), with Russia even further away (5.1%). And we are talking, mainly, about the production of engineers (one of the elements that Emmanuel Todd uses to announce the imminent collapse of the US and Europe).
In the classic scheme of Gramsci about crisesmonsters emerge when the old that does not want to die prevents what wants to be born from developing its birth.. But you can’t cover the sun with one finger. In 2027 the SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications) system will have been replaced by the alternative proposed by the BRICS. Sanctions, blockades and other weapons of the American IV Generation wars will belong to the past, although before, the neobanks They will have put an end to this American abuse of the international banking and financial system. Not in vain, in Kazan has presented what could be a new shared currency that will unseat the dollar (and where the Venezuelan flag appears). There is a new world afoot.
That is why the war scenario promoted by the US is the most likely, also in the Western world. There is already war in Ukraine, in Yemen, in Sudan, in Ethiopia, in Burma, in Niger, in Syria, in Afghanistan, in Iraq, in Libya… without forgetting the Israeli genocide in Gaza that has already spread to the West Bank and Lebanon. The European right, together with the extreme right, are going to support wars (even, despite their historical anti-Semitism, they unconditionally support Israel), and their closeness to Putin has been exchanged for good relations with the European Union, with NATO and the European Central Bank, for whom it is no longer a problem that he governs in Italy a fascist force, like the Fratelli d’Italia of Giorgia Meloni (remember that the European Union threatened sanctions on the Netherlands 20 years ago if the extreme right entered the government).
The only salvation of democracy will come from some kind of hinge between the old world of human rights and individual freedoms and the new world of peace, shared prosperity and the defense of the environment. Where women are going to represent one of the main fights to become the main actor of the new. If in Europe the feminist fight has unleashed the ghosts of the extreme right (accompanied by a practice evidently not always coherent from the male left), we must count on the opposition in other places with less tradition.
Europe does not seem willing to defend this new post-neoliberal space unless a new revolt of the indignant takes over the continent. But if that were to happen, the right that the lawfare To prevent this, their repression will increase, potentially leading to a scenario of violence with uncertain results. Some form of fascism, whatever we call it, is at the doors of the world and in some countries it has already entered through the ballot boxes.
The other alternative, which already functions as a private club in UNASUR and CELAC, and which will do the same in the BRICS when, sooner or later, it joins the BRICS, corresponds to the ALBA countries, made up of Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Dominica, Ecuador, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Lucia
ALBA, which is 20 years ahead of the BRICS, works for a multipolar world – in reality, without poles, which means that it rejects the imperial functioning so typical of the 20th century. The logic of ALBA, crossed with the BRICS, is to assume that (even though today it belongs more to a wish than a reality) will encourage literacy, propose the creation of a BRICS Council of Social Movements, seek global communication that, through formulas such as TeleSur, will break Western communication hegemony, will share medical resources in emergencies such as pandemics or catastrophes, in addition to collaborating in health and scientific development, peasant women from China, Brazil and Central America will find their space (from the logic of food sovereignty), alternative means of payment will be promoted, arms trafficking to countries in conflict will cease, Financial means will be sought that do not strangle the people, currency and trade will be shared.they will create companies grand-nationals that compete from another logic with the multinationals and, among other things, it will make the world’s largest oil reserves in Venezuela available to the BRICS countries.
However, in eThis Kazan summit has not been possible for Venezuela to join due to a veto by Brazil regretted by the other countries.. In the BRICS, today, primacy belongs to China and Brazil (the BRICS Bank is in Shanghai and is headed by former Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff), but Brazil lacks the strength to veto a country that all the other members want to join.
Surely, in that refusal of Lula Silvawhich has generated a harsh complaint from the Maduro government to the friendly government of Brazil, several elements have taken precedence. And the excuse initially presented, and later corrected, that the National Electoral Council, as urged by the Venezuelan Supreme Court of Justice, publishes the results in the gazette does not seem true. In the BRICS there are countries that do not even hold elections – think of China – because their political system has a different logic from that of liberal democracy. Furthermore, Brazil, out of respect for another country, as happens in the international sphere, should accept the result issued by the TSJ of Venezuela, which, after a comparison, sanctioned that the elections were won by Nicolás Maduro. The fact that Celso Amorín later came out offering other explanations linked to the complexity of the process indicates that they themselves understand that they have made a mistake.
The reasons have surely gone somewhere else. On the one hand, Lula’s weakness, where the PT is one of the parties of that government to which moderate and even right-wing sectors also belong. Other, the search for Brazilian hegemony in the Latin American region, where some Brazilian economic actors would see Venezuela’s entry into the BRICS as a question.. Nor should we lose sight of the inertia of a bureaucratic state machine like the Brazilian one, which follows in the wake of Bolsonaro’s veto of Venezuela and which left behind patterns of behavior that are difficult to dismantle. Finally, it is not difficult to think that there has been North American pressure not to give Venezuela that balloon of oxygen which, if it exists, makes North American negotiations with Maduro difficult and, mainly, circumvents the more than 900 sanctions and economic blockades that the US applies to Venezuela. The US interest in Venezuela has always been oil (someone will explain to us its commitment to human rights in Saudi Arabia or Israel), and Venezuela’s approach to the BRICS makes that will difficult.
The BICS are adjusting. Let us remember the difficulties involved in the birth of what is today the European Union or what the creation of the United Nations or, more modestly, organizations like MERCOSUR meant. The beginnings are always difficult, but also hopeful. Venezuela’s participation in the BRICS – which will de facto operate, because that is the intention of Xi Yin Ping and Putin – will inject it with ideology, so that the effort that the country has underway to promote an Anti-Fascist International will go away. reinforcing
The world is once again in that situation that he pointed out Pink Luxembourg when he warned that “socialism or barbarism.” We are talking about the survival of the planet. There are two forces that can help build the awareness that is still missing, and that could especially mobilize the youngest. On the one hand, the transformative additions that feminism incorporates – which is going to be the most relevant political force of the 21st century – and environmentalism, which will mark, together with Artificial Intelligence, the contours of the 21st century. With technological force placed at the service of the majority, with the incorporation of women as an essential political actor, with the urgency of ecologically saving the planet, the insufficient awareness among the majority today can be reversed, and what today is a horizon of shadows , begin to paint oneself with some, although modest, colors of hope. While the US attacks, Europe slumbers and the rest of the planet is beginning to wake up.
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