‘Empire Strikes Back’: Eric Draitser On Western Destabilization Of BRICS
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By Mnar Muhawesh, Mint Press
Popular Resistance
Sunday, Jun 5, 2016
‘They see [the BRICS countries] as integral to the Western-centric worldview … and they don’t want to allow any competition to emerge,’ the geopolitical analyst tells Mnar Muhawesh on ‘Behind the Headline.’
NATO, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank are all touted
as global organizations, in which every member is deserving of dignity,
progress and support.
Yet these organizations and others like
them are dominated by economic and political heavyweights in Washington,
Wall Street, London and Brussels, who are working to preserve the
ideals of Empire that exploit, dominate or wholly ignore the Global
South.
Despite efforts to promote only the interests of the
Western elite, emerging economies are growing strong enough to fight
modern-day economic imperialism and shrug off the chains of Western
hegemony.
There’s the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the
Eurasian Economic Union, the Asian Infrastructure Bank, and China’s “One
Belt, One Road” strategy to link much of the Eurasian landmass via
trade and investment.
But nowhere is the focus on decentralizing
power away from the West more apparent than in the bloc of emerging
economic powers known as BRICS.
Brazil, Russia, India, China and
South Africa have formed a multilateral political and economic bloc that
champions efforts to wrestle power away from Western-dominated organs.
As
Eric Draitser noted in the first of his exclusive series for MintPress
News, “Empire Strikes Back,” the BRICS countries are home to over 3
billion people. It’s the “single largest bloc in terms of human capacity
among global alliances.”
The growing muscle exerted by BRICS, he
writes, “has undoubtedly ruffled a few feathers in Washington and
elsewhere in the West.”
And thus, with feathers sufficiently
ruffled by the threat of a potent rival to their power, various actors
have stepped in over the past year or two to destabilize and undermine
BRICS nations through both political and economic means.
And in each case, there’s a clear beneficiary: the U.S. and its allies.
Here to talk more about the Empire’s destabilizing tactics is geopolitical analyst Eric Draitser.
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