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Trump Is Accelerating the Growth of BRICS — Weakening of U.S.

2 September 2025, by Eric Zuesse. (All of my recent articles can be seen here.)

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“Supercharging SCO and BRICS integration”

Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris

2 September 2025

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CHRISTOFOROU: All right, Alexander, let's talk about the SCO and uh the results of the first

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day of meetings uh at uh at the SCO. Uh Jinping meeting Modi, Putin meeting

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Pashinian, Modi, Xi Jinping, Erdogan

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as well. Uh what are your thoughts on everything that has happened uh at the at the SCO so far? MERCOURIS: Well, so far we've

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not had a huge amount of news about specific agreements, but clearly there

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are, they're working on all kinds of ideas and they're all talking to each other and there's talk that the Chinese

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now want to create yet another bank apparently that's going to bring together the SCO states. What I think we

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can see and this is what I want to say about the SCO. The SCO started as a kind

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of loose, very loose talking shop, a

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place which various countries, China, Russia, Central Asian states, met and

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discussed security issues and specifically anti-terrorism issues. And

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now it's becoming instead a venue for meetings of top leaders. So Putin is

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there. Xi Jinping obviously is there because he's hosting. Modi is there. Erdogan is

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there. Pashinian somewhat surprisingly has turned up. Others are there too. The

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prime minister of Vietnam. Um all sorts of important people are there, and it's

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starting to integrate together with the BRICS. So you have the BRICS which

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does the trading and um finance issues.

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You then have the SCO which is a more kind of political security type

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structure. By the way I forgot to mention Pezeshkian the Iranian president is there too. So you know you have all

2:05

of these people, but it's the same group of people. It seems that Lula himself,

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the president of Brazil, is not actually um in Tenzin in at the SCO, but exactly

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as we anticipated, he is now calling for an emergency BRICS summit to take

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place, and it's quite likely that we will have that happen in a few weeks time before the end of the year. So

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there'll be yet another meeting and it's the same people who are going to all of

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these different meetings and they're interacting with each other and they're

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doing business. Now this is what makes it very different from meetings that

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take place in Europe um with you know with European leaders meeting with each other or with European leaders meeting

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with American leaders because when these leaders come together they don't just

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come with their political and military advisers. Usually there's trains of

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business people um involved. They all meet with each other as well.

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Economic and issues are discussed. Business related

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issues are discussed. Putin has brought, for example, a huge delegation with him.

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Again, when he goes to China, he usually brings most of the most of the economics

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ministers of the Russian government, but also lots of business people. Gazprom, non Rosneft, Rostec, the major banks,

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they all they're all there. They're all meeting with the Chinese. They're all meeting with the Indians as well.

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They're all meeting with the Turks and they're they're talking economics

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and they're doing business. I mean, they're actually agreeing business deals with each other. So what these meetings

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are each one takes the process of creating

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a kind of m a multipolar system a further step forward. So you had kazan

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last year the BRICS meeting which pioneered ideas about payment systems.

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Kazan was mostly about payment systems. Then you had the meeting in Rio uh which

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was chaired by Lula which is clearly a preparatory meeting. It's now become

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increasingly this is a preparatory meeting to the meeting that is taking place now. Then you have Modi Putin and

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Xi turning up at this meeting together with all their top economics people. They're now talking about banks. This is

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outside the remit of the SCO. Exactly. which is supposed to be a security

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issue. So they're doing BRICS business as well, but they're taking that a step

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forward. There's also, as I said, Lula is saying going to be another BRICS meeting probably this year to address

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more fully the tariff issues that the United States is bringing up. And at the

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same time inevitably because the SCO is a security organization which has now

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gone way beyond its original me remmit to just talk about terrorism and such

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things. It's now starting to develop a a a structure. It's got a secretariat.

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It's got in other words some kind of a bureaucracy. Um there are discussions about joint

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technology projects. These already exist between China and Russia and between

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Russia and India. But we're now starting to look at joint technology projects

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which could involve everyone and which have military applications. So I I don't

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want to talk about a block being set up here because this isn't what these

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leaders want to say, but you could see that they are busy now take creating

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step by step a whole system of international relations that bypasses

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the West. And that's what this meeting is. CHRISTOFOROU: That's exactly what what they're doing. A system to to bypass to push

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back. Yes. uh against the the collective west. I mean, isn't that what what this is all

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about? MERCOURIS: Exactly. CHRISTOFOROU: That is exactly to to to bypass sanctions and the weaponization of of the dollar and the

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weapon weaponization of of collective west institutions. Uh tariffs, all of these things that

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that's what the SCO and BRICS is is becoming. MERCOURIS: Yes. Yes. These two institutions, BRICS

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and the SCO are are starting to converge. They're starting to become

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part of the same overall structure and they're always at pains to say that this

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is not an anti-western structure and it's not an alliance against the west

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exactly but it is an alliance in effect to protect all of these countries from

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the west and that's perhaps how one should look at it. CHRISTOFOROU: I was I was going to say the exact same

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thing. I was going to say to protect against the actions of the West. Yes. It's not about going going um up against

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the West. Yeah. Per se. But but what it's about is is protection against everything that that

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the West is doing. Uh but at the end of the day, what you're going to get is is a multipolar world and and a parallel system, a new

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system of of doing things. Yes. of doing business, of of getting loans, of uh of

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making payments, of trade, maybe even of security. Yes. Military uh issues. I

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mean, maybe that's going to be coming as well. Yes. I mean, that that that's what you're getting here. MERCOURIS: Well, that that is exactly what you're

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getting here. That is exactly what we're starting to see. So uh security issues, countries that um work together, working

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together to agree security issues with each other again to

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protect each other and to protect each other from all kinds of things, not just direct open military threats like say

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the 12-day war which we saw in which the is Israel and the United States

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conducted an attack against Iran, but also sharing information and providing intelligence to deal with

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color revolution threats for example. I mean that that kind of thing is going on

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all the time. Now the the thing to say is that India

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which I think the Americans had imagined might be the weak link in the chain

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because India has historically difficult relations with China,

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I think to American astonishment and dismay and not just American but

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European as well elected to choose to go ahead with this. They continue to buy

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Russian oil. They're stepping up their buying of Russian oil. Modi has just

9:28

gone to Tianjin. He's had a meeting there with Putin. He's invited Putin to

9:34

visit India in December. Modi and Putin have each referred to each other over

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the course of this meet their meetings and have published statements in which

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they referred to each other as their good friend. Modi did the same thing as

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Putin did in Alaska. Putin was agreed to be driven by Trump in

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Trump's presidential limousine. Modi in Tianjin agreed to be driven by Putin in

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Putin's presidential limousine. And

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Modi under pressure from the United States because all of these tariffs have now

10:20

been imposed on India by the United States, receives a letter from Xi Jinping. We

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don't know exactly what the text of that letter is and apparently there have been further discussions but the Chinese are

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saying apparently to the Indians look we're prepared to offer you economic assistance in order to mitigate the

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effect of these tariffs. So he you you could see how everything is sort of

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coming together a and is being woven together

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in ways that I I think only now are people in the west fully understanding

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this. In fairness to Trump, he's understood

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that BRICS is serious. I think much earlier than most American

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politicians did. But I think it was India's decision to say no about the oil

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sanctions, the oil tariffs and to have Modi attend this meeting and to develop

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closer relations with the Russians and the Chinese. That probably is the single

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event that has made people in the West, in the United States especially, but

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also in Europe, finally understand that this is for real. CHRISTOFOROU: I’ll I'll push back a little bit on that

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on what you said, Alexander. I want to hear your thoughts. Um, what do you say to to to the argument and and

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yeah, this is my argument to you with Trump in India that that Trump he he created this

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Yeah. He created this uh this this tighter unification of of BRICS and the

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SCO. He's created this uh I guess you could call it a raprochement between

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China and India. I mean you could you could call it that, right? This dialogue, this new atmosphere uh the

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these the this new spirit of of of good relations between India and China. Trump

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did this to his team Trump his team his adviserss. I I think of Navaro. I think

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of Lindsey Graham. Um, they're the ones that has that that have that have trashed India. Trump trashed India. He

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said their economy was a was a zombie economy or a dead I forgot what he called India's economy in a truth social

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post. He has Navaro going on Fox News daily trashing India. I mean now now

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Navaro is is trying to kiss up to Modi. I saw his Fox News interview the other day. Now he's trying to kiss up to Modi and saying India is so great and Modi is

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so great. Why are you guys aligning with Putin and Russia? I don't understand it. But anyway, Navaro screwed up. Lindsey

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Graham was whispering in Trump's ear. 500% uh bone crushing sanctions on India

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and China. But I mean, they've been trashing India from from the minute Trump got into office. And you know, the

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funny thing is that Trump had a very good relationship with Modi and with India, a very good relationship.

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And and in the span of six months, they have completely trashed it because they they acted like like

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mafioso dimwits. Yes, they really did. This is this is this is the the the dumbest move one of the

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dumbest moves in geopolitics. Trump always trashes Biden for for bringing China and and Russia together. Well, you

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know, President Trump, you have brought India and China closer together and you've brought India, China and Russia

13:42

closer together. This was this was such an own goal from the Trump administration and and you can't blame

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India. No, you cannot blame India because they they realized, you know what, we had good relations with Trump, but

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all of a sudden it's 50% tariffs. All of a sudden, he's saying that um he's the one that brokered peace between uh

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Pakistan and and US during the during the conflict. You know, he he completely embarrassed,

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humiliated, and trashed Modi and the people of India. That's just that's the truth. From a position where the people

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of India and Modi actually liked Trump. That that's where they started. and and in six months he's now he's he's he's

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he's brought together these three powers. I mean, he's really brought them together now. Um this this was an

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incredible long goal from the Trump administration. Absolutely. That's that's that's the way I see it. I I want to hear your thoughts.

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MERCOURIS: No, I I I I don't disagree with any point you've just made. I mean, you said you're pushing back, but actually uh uh

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you're not. But can I just explain this? I mean first of all the the moves towards developing a

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warmer relationship between India and China actually predate Trump. I mean they began in Kazan. Uh Putin got Modi

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and Xi both to come to the brick summit in Kazan in October of last year. The

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two had a meeting. It was a friendly meeting. They agreed to work together to

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sort out issues on the border. Progress was being made. It was all very slow,

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but it was, you know, things were starting to come together and we could

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see a process beginning to develop. And then of course, what happens is exactly what you described because Trump then

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comes in. He's the new president. He has this excellent meeting with Modi

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in the United States in the White House. I think it was in February. They are the best of friends. They'd been the best of

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friends during Trump's first term. CHISTOFORU: I think Modi was the first visit. MERCOURIS: He was the first visit. Absolutely.

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Absolutely. I mean I mean the the two the two men gave every appearance of really liking each other. Trump during

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his first term had a very successful visit to India. Everything seemed to be

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very well. And then of course all the whisperers came along. Lindsey Graham the bone crushing sanctions. We're going

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to impose uh uh tariffs on oil uh exported by Russia. That will bring the

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Russians to heel. Um and of course we also got all the whisperers and not just

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the whisperers because Trump himself is concerned about this talking about um BRICS. It's out to destroy the dollar

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and do all of that. We need to we need to stop BRICS. So the calculation [by The West] obviously was well the Indians really

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don't get on with the Chinese so very well. I don't think it was registered

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that Modi and Xi had you know a good meeting in Kazan. So the Indians don't

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really like the Chinese. They really distrust the Chinese. Um um and well

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what we'll do is we will create trouble between India and Russia by imposing

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these tariffs on India for buying Russian oil and the Indians will blame

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the Russians for this because the Russians aren't agreeing to a ceasefire and they won't obviously want to break

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with us. And as for India um getting closer to China, well that is

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inconceivable because we know how bad the relationship between China and India

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really is and how these two countries actually hate each other and how re India is really on our side. So they

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come up with this plan to impose these tariffs and they say to themselves that

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this is going to create problems. is going to it's going to create problems between India and Russia and it's going

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to make the Indians reconsider their whole stance towards BRICS and then you're going to start to see BRICS come

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down and then of course exactly the opposite happened in exactly this the way that you said um the Indians were

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not prepared to give up Russian oil they were not prepared to sacrifice their entire foreign policy um for um American

18:08

and European obsession about Ukraine. They were not prepared to subordinate

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themselves in that kind of way. And um fundamentally and ultimately and this is

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a key point, they need cheap oil. Now we've discussed this in program after

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program after program, but just to say again, India needs cheap oil because it

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has a huge a huge economy. Large numbers are still very poor people. Many of them

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still working on the land. They are immediately affected if the price of oil

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rises. So India predictably said no and instead of the Americans

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backing off and understanding that, they threw a tantrum,

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Trump uh started to talk about as you said India being this dead economy which

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is an unbelievably rude rude thing to say as well as an

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untrue thing to say but also a very rude thing to say. Uh Peter Navaro as you

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rightly say is unleashed writes articles he doesn't just appear on Fox he's writes articles in the Financial Times

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unbelievably aggressive and rude about India, and of course ultimately the

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result was that the Indians themselves started to get extremely angry if you read the Indian media by the way which I

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do now it's difficult to understate how

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angry the Indians are, and of course the result is that um Modi is not only

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just going to Tianjin but this whole process of integration BRICS

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integration and SCO integration and creation of multipolarity

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has achieved an enormous boost and a quiet progress of raprochement between

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India and China, or detent maybe between India and China, India and China that had started in Kazan and was moving

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forward you know bit by bit slowly, has suddenly been supercharged supercharged.

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PS:

In order to get some idea of the net effect that the U.S. primary and secondary sanctions against Russia have been impacting Russia and the other three main BRICS countries (China, India, and Brazil) versus how they have been impacting U.S. and the three main NATO countries (France, UK, and Germany), and also the newest NATO country, which is therefore now trying to adjust to the U.S.-imposed sanctions against its bordering and former major trading-partner Russia, which is Finland, I present the following figures from the World Bank. I have also included in these comparisons, the major NATO country that has been resisting the U.S.-imposed sanctions, Hungary, because they were the most dependent of all of these ten countries upon trade with Russia:

GDP 2024 annual growth rate (not adjusted for Purchasing Power Parity — they don’t want to show the real figures, which are PPP, but to boost the U.S. comparative performances; so, the U.S. figure shown here is artificially high):

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG?locations=BR-CN-FI-DE-FR-RU-US-HU-IN-GB

6.5% INDIA

5.0% CHINA

4.3% RUSSIA

3.4% BRAZIL

2.8% U.S.

1.2% FRANCE

1.1% UK

-.2%  FINLAND

-.2% GERMANY

-.8% HUNGARY

Though the U.S. figure is artificially high (because America is the only country whose GDP and GDP PPP are identical), its relative performance as compared to the five countries listed below it is probably true, because many of the jobs that are being lost from those five below it are being moved to America, which (like Russia though not to the same extent) is a major energy-exporting country. Hungary had been getting even a higher percentage of its energy from Russia than the other four were.

Ironically, therefore, the U.S. tactics to conquer Russia are coming more at the expense of the other NATO countries than at the expense of Russia. (I predicted this on 28 September 2022.)

And so, the BRICS countries (including India, China, Russia, and Brazil) are doing fine, while the U.S.-empire countries (including France, UK, Finland, Germany, and Hungary) are doing poorly.

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.