While the West has mostly focused on the increased Chinese influence in Africa, it wouldn’t be surprising if the entire continent embraced the BRICS system due to the West’s attempt to protect the pro-Western post-colonial regimes:
Speaking on the sidelines of the BRICS Business Forum in Moscow, which was held on October 17-18, Mantula highlighted the organization’s capacity to counter the influence of Western narratives, financial systems, and the impact of sanctions.
“Now that we’ve seen sanctions being imposed on certain countries, we’ve seen the biasness of some of these international bodies, the BRICS has become a solution,” Mantula noted, reflecting on how the group, which began with Brazil, Russia, India, and China, has grown into a significant platform for cooperation.
She pointed out that countries are drawn to BRICS because of its inclusive approach to diversity and mutual respect, both economically and culturally. Mantula emphasized that BRICS offers its members an opportunity to operate independently of Western structures, making them more resilient to potential sanctions. “Within the BRICS countries we are having a bigger population, more natural resources and if we learn to work independently outside of the Western systems, even the sanctions won’t harm us,” she explained.
Mantula also referenced a speech by Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian during the forum’s plenary, where he spoke of sanctions imposed on certain countries. “Any one of our countries can be sanctioned next,” Mantula stated, underscoring the potential of BRICS to offer a united front against Western pressures.
Most Americans and Europeans aren’t aware that in addition to Russia and Iran, Washington and Brussels have placed economic sanctions on China as well as a number of African nations. This has, quite rightly, alarmed all of the African governments, who realize that they are one regime change, or worse, Western-sponsored attempted regime change, from being cast out into economic darkness.
This is why Egypt, Ethiopia, and South Africa have already joined BRICS, and why it is safe to assume that most of the other countries on the resource-rich continent will be seeking to join it soon, assuming the divide between the anti-Western nations (Russia, Iran, and China) and the neutral nations (Brazil and India) can be successfully bridged at the current summit.