Both Cuba and Venezuela are moving closer to BRICS.

[BADecker]

When you have a rogue regime in Washington that is attacking literally everyone, that means everyone is going to first de-Americanize (that includes de-dollarization) then seek an alternative; and what's better than a powerful bloc like BRICS with 3 superpowers in it already

BRICS has less to do with Washington, and more to do with bypassing sanctions. Otherwise they might as well prefer any other currency to USD.

I don't believe for a moment, that group of regions that are afraid of sanctions would be somehow willing to commit to rules amongst themselves, or be transparent when they are literally being rejected from everywhere else because of their opacity and rule breaking.

All you are trying to say is that the world is trying to reject itself, right? Lol.

If the West can't formally get into BRICS, they are trying to get in through sanctions. China and Russia and all the rest of the non-West countries have been gigantic and strong for thousands of years. It's the manipulation of the peoples of the world by their government controlled media that doesn't reveal this to the humble people of the world.

The non-West doesn't really need the West, just like the West doesn't really need the non-West. And both of them are not really united enough within themselves to need themselves.

The whole thing is an attempt, behind the scenes, by the super rich to take over the world, like it always has been, at least since communications and transportation have become what they are.

[Hispo]

When you have a rogue regime in Washington that is attacking literally everyone, that means everyone is going to first de-Americanize (that includes de-dollarization) then seek an alternative; and what's better than a powerful bloc like BRICS with 3 superpowers in it already

BRICS has less to do with Washington, and more to do with bypassing sanctions. Otherwise they might as well prefer any other currency to USD.

I don't believe for a moment, that group of regions that are afraid of sanctions would be somehow willing to commit to rules amongst themselves, or be transparent when they are literally being rejected from everywhere else because of their opacity and rule breaking.

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The non-West doesn't really need the West, just like the West doesn't really need the non-West. And both of them are not really united enough within themselves to need themselves.

Actually, there is a very strong dependence of the west of cheap labor, so the United States and the European Union continue to have access to cheap products and services, of not for the cheap labor of Asia, then most of products which people from the West get would skyrocket in prices, that is fact, there is a good reason for companies to manufacture all their products in China, India, Taiwan and so on. Even if leaders from the west wanted to move those production lines to the United States or Europe that would imply to self-inflict a very strong inflation on their own societies.

So there is actually dependence on the East, at the same time the East needs money to continue to come from the West.

[BADecker]

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The non-West doesn't really need the West, just like the West doesn't really need the non-West. And both of them are not really united enough within themselves to need themselves.

Actually, there is a very strong dependence of the west of cheap labor, so the United States and the European Union continue to have access to cheap products and services, of not for the cheap labor of Asia, then most of products which people from the West get would skyrocket in prices, that is fact, there is a good reason for companies to manufacture all their products in China, India, Taiwan and so on. Even if leaders from the west wanted to move those production lines to the United States or Europe that would imply to self-inflict a very strong inflation on their own societies.

So there is actually dependence on the East, at the same time the East needs money to continue to come from the West.

That dependence is a false dependence. Quantities of certain raw materials may be found at other places than the US. But the US has within itself enough of these materials that the US doesn't need these other countries.

The thing that the US needs is to stop depending on these other countries. But big business isn't set up to move out of those countries. So, they are fighting US independence.

This goes into the tariffs. The tariffs are a good idea. But they are only half the story. The other half is regulations and incentives in the US for average citizens to start manufacturing the things they get from other countries, right in their garages or back yards.

If regulations had a stair-step increase depending on the size of the company, and if the little guy working out of his garage had special incentives to get his business going, PLUS government advertising of the availability of those incentives, people all over America would be starting their own businesses, and manufacturing anything Americans need.

It's a money problem. Big business has enough money to bribe Congress to not ease up on the regs for the little guy. Trump did his part with the tariffs. Now Congress needs to make it easy for the little manufacturer to get going.

If things were done like this, America wouldn't need anything from anywhere else. And other countries wouldn't need anything from America if the other countries did it like this as well.

And with Zelensky moving to the US ( https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5382794.msg66031826#msg66031826 ), things will get all messed up for a while.