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Bofferbrauer2 said:
The way this world is going it's looking increasingly likely to me that the world will get divided into Blocks again, and it looks like there will be 3: The EU and their partners, the US and those who stayed loyal to the MAGA, and then the BRICS+ - though I expect some countries like Brazil or South Africa to be in 2 out of 3 blocks. |
There is also still the African Union (55 member states that make up the countries of the African Continent).
South Africa is already in multiple Blocks, and seem more likely the AU will join BRICS. So yeah BRICS+.
"While South Africa is currently the only African member of BRICS, the bloc has expanded to include Egypt and Ethiopia as full members, and several other African nations participate as partner countries. The BRICS countries also engage with the African Union on various issues and initiatives"
Unlike UNASUR which is not open to join BRICS, but some of its members have joined.
EU-MERCOSUR trade deal is also there, so EU could deepen ties with South America.
ASEAN is more open to join BRICS and several of it's 10 members already have.
https://eastasiaforum.org/2025/02/22/asean-members-balance-with-brics-as-the-world-shifts/
BRICS is going to be much bigger than a divided US / EU, US will get more and more isolated, and thus more and more dangerous with their military.
EU would do well to further strengthen ties with South America, Africa and Asia.
https://brics-plus-analytics.org/regionalism-in-2024-new-platforms-to-emerge/
Anyway it does look like we're at a cross-roads in geopolitics. Balance is shifting, has been shifting, Trump is accelerating the process by destroying US EU relationships as well as destroying US' soft power. While remaining dogmatically focused on keeping power in the ME through Israel, US is quickly losing the rest of the world.
