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#Ukraine: #Russia: The BRICS and Russian ambitions. Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute

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🗓️ 4 August 2023

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#Ukraine: #Russia: The BRICS and Russian ambitions. Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2023/07/28/diplomacy-watch-putin-fights-to-keep-friends-in-africa/?mc_cid=4a2b5ca9b1&mc_eid=41728ae004

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This is CBSI on the world I'm John Bachelorette with

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Anatole Leven, my colleague. He's at the Quincy Institute for Responsible

0:31.8

Statecraft and we're observing outside of the Ukraine battlefield.

0:36.7

There's a contest, an information warfare contest, a diplomatic contest,

0:42.4

for the global south's attention during this conflict that is

0:47.5

draining the resources of the global north into the second year of the war.

0:53.1

And yet Anatole Lebrick's meeting in South Africa, Brazil, Russia, India, China,

0:59.7

and South Africa is notable because there is entertainment, I read, that there will be new

1:06.0

people, new countries invited, the two that got my attention immediately are Argentina,

1:11.7

which is deeply in debt and facing an election next year. A critical election, everyone is

1:16.9

critical when you're in Argentina. And Venezuela, a failed state from the point of view of the

1:22.5

United States. What is the bricks for Russia, for Russia right now? How does it hope to use

1:29.0

this bricks meeting? I note that that Mr. Putin will not attend, but that is a secondary matter

1:34.9

to the long term. Well, what Russia would like the bricks to be is an alternative to the G7,

1:43.6

as that is to say, a grouping of leading states around the world, which is not dominated by the West.

1:52.8

Or it must be said by China, because one has to remember that India is also part of the bricks,

1:57.5

that includes Russia, and therefore can allow a measure of independence,

2:04.0

but an independent block that will push back against what Russia sees as China too, and even

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