by Lew Rockwell, Lew Rockwell:

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa returned from Riyadh, earlier this week, with news that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had expressed his country’s intention to join BRICS.

This is not such a surprise – Argentina and Iran also announced the same in the spring. At this point, we will need to think up more and more complicated acronyms for the expanding association, but that’s not the point.