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In the Coming U.S. Elections, Vote BRICS

by Dennis Small (EIRNS) — Oct. 20, 2024

Americans may not like hearing it, but what the chairwoman of Russia’s Federation Council Sen. Valentina Matviyenko said is true: “The upcoming U.S. presidential elections will not be the most important event of the year for the world community and will not determine the further course of history.… The BRICS summit will be that event…. The three days of the BRICS summit [Oct. 22-24] and the negotiations of the leaders of the world majority in [Kazan, Russia] the capital of Tatarstan will have a decisive influence on our future,” Matviyenko wrote.

That is true, because the decisive issues facing humanity—of nuclear war or peace, of economic development or cataclysmic collapse of the global financial system—will be on the table for deliberation at the BRICS summit, and they are not even on the radar screen in the current U.S. Presidential race. And Americans have, by and large, allowed this charade to continue, to the delight of Wall Street and the City of London.

If you are interested in reality, and actually hope to shape your future and that of your children, then you should listen to—and work to elect—Diane Sare and Jose Vega, the LaRouche independent candidates.

Russian President Vladimir Putin previewed some of the major issues that will be discussed at the BRICS summit later this week, in a two-hour exchange on Oct. 18 with heads of leading BRICS media agencies. Putin said the center of growth of the world’s physical economy has shifted to the BRICS nations, and that shift will only increase; that the BRICS “is not a bloc organization, it has a universal character"; that it is open to cooperation with both the U.S. and Europe; and that the upcoming BRICS summit will be “proceeding incrementally, step by step” with needed fundamental changes in the international financial architecture. “We will not rush,” Putin stated, “we will not rush, but we will move, move as fast as we can.”

Helga Zepp-LaRouche addressed the challenges facing the BRICS and the prospects of this summit, in comments to the Oct.18 weekly International Peace Coalition meeting:

“There has been an enormous amount of effort to destabilize the various BRICS countries ahead of time. In the case of Argentina, so much so that they didn’t even join the BRICS, which they had originally intended to do. In other cases, tremendous financial warfare was done.” Zepp-LaRouche compared the policy fight in many BRICS nations, and the uncertainty of the outcome in some cases, to the situation in the “battleground states” in the U.S. presidential election.

“But nevertheless,” she stated, “I’m quite certain that they [the BRICS] will come out very strong; even much stronger than in the Johannesburg summit last year in South Africa. They will announce new structures of an international security architecture. I’m pretty sure that it will be along the lines of what Putin said when he suggested on June 14 [2024] a new Eurasian security infrastructure. And probably they will reiterate what Xi Jinping has said repeatedly—prominently to President Obama at the time—that the BRICS are open for every nation to join [the world development process]. I would hope that they would say that, because I am convinced that what the BRICS are trying to do will be very positive in any account.

“But the problem is that we have to overcome geopolitics,” Zepp-LaRouche concluded. “Because if the present trend to divide the world into two separate blocs—one NATO bloc, Global NATO with tariffs and restrictions; and then a BRICS bloc—I think that that does not overcome the danger of World War III.”

But an approach that can solve the problem of the decoupling of the world into warring blocs with a higher-order solution is available—as the Treaty of Westphalia so clearly demonstrated. We invite you to participate in the process that will shape the future of the world, as Matviyenko posed the problem, at the Sare/Vega peace conference and concert, “Build a Peace Chorus Against the Ghouls of War,” to take place in New York City on Saturday, Oct. 26 at 2:00 p.m.