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Tonight, while the U.S. fixates obsessively on the war in Ukraine and on the apparently vital and pressing question of who

will govern various provinces in eastern Ukraine the rest of the world is reorganizing

its core alliances and power structures.

For the last 20 years, an alliance of developing countries called BRICS, named for its

key members Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa has been rapidly growing.

It would be a clear exaggeration to assert that Brix is on the verge of replacing the U.S. and

NATO and the various neoliberal institutions of the West in exercising hegemony, but every year it is getting

closer to doing so. And nothing has fueled the ambitions of bricks more than

the virtually monomaniacal fixation of the US national security state on the war in Ukraine.

While the US sends tens of billions of dollars after tens of billions of dollars in

deplete its own stockpiles of weaponry

and gives away major concessions

in order to avoid a humiliating loss to Moscow,

the BRICS alliance that its undisputed leader China

has been aggressively expanding its influence and power on every continent on the planet

other than North America and Antarctica.

Washington's obsession with Kiev and this war is providing a major boost to BRICS in part by distracting

American European policy makers but even more so by fueling the core

narrative that BRICS exploits to fuel its growth, namely that the U.S. has a long history of

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