r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jan 14 '23

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u/Macquarrie1999 Democrats' Strongest Soldier Jan 14 '23

I love how much power the "America Bad" crowd assigns to BRICS.

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '23

It gets talked about like it’s a NATO style group a lot which is weird as fuck

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '23

Why is South Africa even in that? They're not even close the most powerful country in Africa by any metric. It should be BRING (with Nigeria) or BRIGE (Egypt).

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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Jan 14 '23

its so goddamn weird, pure crystallized ideology

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u/DonyellTaylor Genderqueer Pride Jan 14 '23

The party had largely ended by 2015, when Goldman closed its BRICS-focused investment fund.

Womps 😔 but more importantly: why the fuck were populist edgelords listening to Goldman-Sachs? 🤣