All right, Alexander, let's talk about the attack on bricks, which is what we are seeing from

the Trump tariffs and the Trump White House.

This is shaping up to be an assault on bricks.

At least that's my opinion of things.

Trump is saying that he's placing all of these tariffs on India and Brazil.

We're now at 50% tariffs for India, 50% tariffs for Brazil,

though there's a lot of exceptions and cutouts to those tariffs, which you'll get into.

But still, it is a way to divide a bricks and to sow chaos inside of bricks. You say to India that you're

going to place tariffs on India because of Russia. You tell China to stop trading with Russia and stop

buying or to stop sending dual-use goods to Russia because they're fueling the war machine.

You want to sow division and discord within bricks and I think that's what we see going on.

And now we have bricks uniting, actually.

Instead of breaking bricks apart, we see a type of bricks consolidation and unification.

And Lula seems to be leading away with this, which is kind of the last person I would have thought

to have called for a BRICS meeting and to call on BRICS to unite and to face the United

States together.

India is also now making moves, not only with Russia, but with China as well.

And this is having the reverse effect than what perhaps the Trump White House was expected.

You're absolutely correct. And I think this is also the general explanation for all of the various diplomatic moves that we're seeing.

Now, what has happened over the last

year, I think since the summit in Kazan, the Brick Summit in Kazan, is that the penny has

finally dropped in the United States. The Bricks is a long-term threat to American economic hegemony. A lot of people after the

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