This is the headline on an [article published] (https://dossiergeopolitico.com/2023/09/01/7524/) Sept. 1 in the Argentine online publication Dossier Geopolitico by international analyst Eduardo J. Vior, which analyzes the significance of BRICS membership for Argentina.
“Nobody has mentioned the possibility this gives us to exchange energy, mineral and food resources for financing that will free us from our current indebtedness, nor the responsibilities falling to us as part of the world government in the making.… It is possible that we will soon advance towards becoming BRICS20, on the way to BRICS40.”
Vior continued: “The BRICS represents the Global South, but the implications go much farther than that. What is really important now is to increase intrabloc trade in the national currencies of its members. That was emphasized by the president of the New Development Bank (NDB), Dilma Rousseff, in her report to the South Africa summit” of the BRICS on Aug. 22-24.
He concluded: “We are currently chained to the IMF, to which we still owe $46 billion, but we have resources (gas, lithium, food, and highly skilled labor) which other partners in the BRICS11 need.… There is no longer a single center which has to be flattered and before which we must prostrate ourselves, in order to obtain a few, expensive crumbs.”
