• HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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    15 hours ago

    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.

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      1 hour ago

      People care about the G7 because they have power and they sometimes agree on important things.

      Neither of those are true of the “BRICS”.

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        1 hour ago

        China, India, and Brazil are all large countries with large economies, but I agree they don’t have a lot to agree on.

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      3 hours ago

      Turtalous growth because of the so many differences in political, economical, ideological between the participating countries which results in shitload of epic proportions

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      13 hours ago

      Russia got all pissy with Kazakhstan just this week as a result of them not joining the BRICS

      • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
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        12 hours ago

        Nothing like fomenting trust in a global financial transaction system by threatening potential user nations.