The BRICS Summit in Kazan, Russia, aims to be a turning point towards a truly multipolar or multi-nodal world that has been in transition for a few years now.

An Imperialistic Structure Does Not End in One Day

The U.S. has managed to build an imperial structure based on more than 800 military bases around the world, the imposition of the dollar as the currency of international trade and reserve, the extraterritorial application of its laws, and by creating a network of vassal and semi-vassal states around its hegemony. Nonetheless, the core of its imperial system relies on the dollar. The de-dollarisation led by the BRICS is driving the U.S. to despair, making their sanctions system increasingly meaningless too.

No empire lasts forever, especially one that lacks a strategic vision, as is the case with the U.S. The American empire lost wars or promoted further chaos in Vietnam (1955-1975), Afghanistan (2002-2021), Iraq (2003-2011), Libya (2011) and did not win in Syria and has shown an inability to control its ally Israel, which continues to commit war crimes, uphold apartheid, engage in state terrorism, and carry out genocide. Moreover, the U.S. has been incapable of formulating its Middle East policy independently of Israel’s prism.

On top of that, domestically, its infrastructure is crumbling, and its social indicators are rapidly approaching those of developing countries. The U.S. is the only major nation where life expectancy is declining, extreme poverty is increasing swiftly, and so is homelessness. Its citizens do........

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