Like, Xi coming out in a military uniform declaring the official establishment of the fourth international and an open invite to all current BRICS members, war against Israel, and a fatwa against the uh imperial powers (fuck off fbi).

Or maybe Xi steps down to be replaced by motherfucking mao-shining

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[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 23 points 1 day ago

During the first cold war, the US made a successful rhetorical pitch by framing capital and its institutions as the calm, rules-based approach to international relations. Despite how much that is not actually the way the US empire operates when rubber hits the road, it has appeal because broadly that's what people want from international institutions. They want calm. They want to be told that level heads are prevailing, that tomorrow is going to look like today.

After the last few decades (and especially with Trump making waves), that desire is still there but more and more people recognize that the US cannot, and has not, delivered. Calm boring BRICS, quietly spinning up its wheels, can make (and maybe even fulfill) that promise.