by Claudiu Secara
If it comes to a full-blown economic war between the BRICS countries and the West, chances are that BRICS coalition‘s odds of success are quite bleak.
For one, only Russia can actually remain unaffected for long by such an eventuality, and China only partially. A US-led embargo on China would be automatically followed by at least half the world controlled by the US. That in itself would cause a massive industrial collapse in China, and millions of people would take to the streets. Any repression by the Chinese government would be used as grounds for more sanctions in defense of the so-called human rights.
Faced with a flood of media attacks on China, the rest of the BRICS countries, Brazil, India, etc., would have to buckle and follow suit, of course to the detriment of their own economies.
In parallel there is now real potential to stir up the Muslims in Russia. The success of the takeover of Syria is monumental. The former head-choppers have changed their keffiyeh scarves for the Western attire and a Western professional military look. They present themselves as a very attractive option for the disoriented youths of Russia. Rejected by the growing Russian nationalism in Russia itself, these youths have few opportunities left in their provincial regions.
Russia is proud of its advanced military technology, and rightly so. Their achievements are truly impressive and unmatched by the West. Nevertheless, as we have just witnessed over and over again, the real confrontation is not between specific weapons on traditional battlefields but on the streets via color revolutions. Not even at the ballot box, but at the level of mobs-for-hire. The mobs are now the battering rams in the arsenal of military technologists.
The West’s narrative of “everything goes” is irresistible to the masses of uneducated and dispirited useless eaters. While the West is keeping a tighter and tighter noose around the necks of their own masses, their Woke narrative gives the alluring impression that unrestrained freedom and liberty are actually real.
The streets respond with gusto to this invitation to anarchy, while any rational presentation by rational people gets ridiculed and dismissed out of hand as unacceptable authoritarianism.
The mob is in the billions while the reasonable are few.
