I’m trying to grasp what the ( geo political) consequences are of the entry of some of the newer countries, like for example Saudi-Arabia for current & future Western-Arabian cooperation.

It’s probably meant more as a framework to counter USA dollar dominance andcpolitics, and as a mean for China (&some pariah states) to extern influence.

What I don’t get is that the current & new members aren’t afraid of some sort reputation damage, and that this consequently will endanger current and new cooperations with the West.

Brics are probably gambling that the West will need their resources (oil, labour, wood, precious metals etc), and that in the end they will counter the worldorder, through simple Western greed or need.

On the other hand, and this is speculative, will the West maintain this ( Brics) cooperation, when it’s obvious that fundamental values like Freedom, democracy and human rights are at stake?

Currently, these values are threatened world wide, Bedrocks of democracy under threat across the globe, and this Bric expansion doesn’t bode well for these values.

The order as we knew it has ended. The free movements of goods and the dream of globalisation, will soon be only memories. Polarisation seems to be now the new order.