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“You can fool some of the people all the time and all the people some of the time,
but you can’t fool all the people all the time.” A. Lincoln
In a move that has surprised BRICS nations and constituents, France and President Emmanuel Macron has asked to attend this year’s BRICS summit in South Africa this August, in a move that appears to signal that France is looking to exit G7.
It is reported that Macron reached out to South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa, who will host the BRICS summit on August 22nd-24th, though it is still unconfirmed if France will receive a formal invitation, as BRICS delegates are allegedly going to convene to see if they will allow France to sit in on the action.
As one Greek outlet put it, citing a French paper that obtained the information about Macron’s ambitions:
‘In essence, France believes that the European market is in crisis due to sanctions against Russia, and the future now belongs to the BRICS, which have taken a large share of the market. France cannot overcome the economic crisis from which the country has been suffering for the past twelve years, and is torn apart by social conflicts. Its access to international markets is not what it used to be. Africa does not want France, consistently expelling French companies from the countries of central Africa. China limited France’s options. Russia is now the enemy. India strengthens and intensifies relations with non- EU countries …,’ the site explained.
Unbeknownst to Western society, BRICS surpassed G7 in global GDP output, The WinePress noted in April.
Indian media First Post and certified accountant Lena Petrova provides more of an overview of this news.
France had already made moves to circumvent the collapsing and rapidly devaluing U.S. dollar this year. In a surprise move in late-March, China completed its first trade of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in yuan, after France decided to sideswipe the dollar, ordering of roughly 65,000 tons of LNG imported from the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Macron had also angered Western friends when in April Macron made it clear that France and other allies should not continue to get “caught up in crises that are not Europe’s”
The question Europeans need to answer … is it in our interest to accelerate a crisis on Taiwan? No. The worse thing would be to think that we Europeans must become followers on this topic and take our cue from the US agenda and a Chinese overreaction.
Macron said at the time
Nevertheless, France has still supplied weapons and artillery to Ukraine. “We have increased supplies of weapons, munitions, armored vehicles and have ramped up logistics support. We will continue to di this in the coming days and weeks,” Macron said earlier this week, cited by Russian state media Tass.
In April, the Economic Ninja had predicted that France would eventually succeed from G7 and join BRICS at some point. So far France seems to be on course for that.
Similarly, in early April Japan broke party lines with G7 and purchased Russian crude oil above the agreed price cap in order to bully Russia, as Japan was desperate to restock it supplies while still keeping the door open in trading with BRICS nations.
Meanwhile more and more nations continued to signal that they intend on joining BRICS, a little over a two dozen at this point, with Mexico recently signing a formal membership application, as Saudi Arabia is set to become the latest member.
All it takes for Evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing
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Michael Loyman