Geopolitical Monitor declared from its limited Canadian base (of intelligence), “The BRICS Is Not a Strategic Threat to the United States.” They said this, meaning by it, that the BRICS is “too weak” to be a threat: “Despite widespread enthusiasm in anti-Western circles, the soon-to-be 11-member economic bloc is a partnership of convenience. It is not a long-term alliance nor a strategic threat to the United States. The criteria to join the BRICS are vague. There is no charter and no fixed secretariat. Not even a functional website. This paper tiger also has a long list of structural challenges to overcome. Its ideological incoherence, characterized by issues ranging from internal conflicts of interest to divergent international perspectives, will pose complex challenges to the ‘bloc’ for the foreseeable future.”
Those familiar with the phenomenon of “sundown syndrome” among patients suffering from dementia will have momentary sympathy for the enraged, even vicious character of the Canadian (read British) response. It is sundown for the British Empire, but very hard for them to admit that. As for individual cases of “imperial sundowner syndrome”—those that become irrational upon realizing that in fact the Sun does set upon the British Empire— several medical remedies are available, though it is not clear that any of them can correct, or even alleviate, chronic stupidity.
