Interesting interview. I managed 50 minutes but my brain is full now!
Basically, Escobar confirmed what I am sure many of us have already guessed that BRICS wants to join the mainstream West but if The West objects, which it almost certainly will, then they are prepared to go their own way and set up all the organisations they need from scratch.
I had not fully appreciated Iran's role in all this. That was interesting.
We were also told that Karaganov, who sometimes debates Putin in public, said that we were living in Biblical times (45:44). I seem to have heard something similar closer to home!
Interesting interview. I managed 50 minutes but my brain is full now!
Basically, Escobar confirmed what I am sure many of us have already guessed that BRICS wants to join the mainstream West but if The West objects, which it almost certainly will, then they are prepared to go their own way and set up all the organisations they need from scratch.
I had not fully appreciated Iran's role in all this. That was interesting.
We were also told that Karaganov, who sometimes debates Putin in public, said that we were living in Biblical times (45:44). I seem to have heard something similar closer to home!
Yeah, they seem to be fully capable of all pieces of the puzzle necessary for a multi-polar world ot function with the help of the West.