Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin has said he will not attend the Group of 20 summit in Brazil, which is a party to the Rome Statute and would be obliged to arrest him under an International Criminal Court warrant.
As I feel the need to say every time it’s mentioned, BRICS is made-up nonsense fabricated by Goldman Sachs to sell third-rate equities. Think about the relationship between the countries of “BRICS” and ask yourself if that sounds like an actual alliance.
It has become a diplomatic talking shop similar to the G7. There has been pushes from some member states to make it more, including creating alternate financial systems, but it has been slow growing.
Brasil would have arrested him? Aren’t they in BRICS?
Yes and yes. What’s confusing you here?
As I feel the need to say every time it’s mentioned, BRICS is made-up nonsense fabricated by Goldman Sachs to sell third-rate equities. Think about the relationship between the countries of “BRICS” and ask yourself if that sounds like an actual alliance.
It has become a diplomatic talking shop similar to the G7. There has been pushes from some member states to make it more, including creating alternate financial systems, but it has been slow growing.
Russia got all pissy with Kazakhstan just this week as a result of them not joining the BRICS
Nothing like fomenting trust in a global financial transaction system by threatening potential user nations.
That doesn’t mean much. Iran and Saudi Arabia also are in it and they hate each other.
I thought it was India and South Africa, not Iran and Saudi Arabia
It was, indeed. The group has grown a lot since then but the original name has stuck.