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nitpick, BRICS now that south africa joined. which is frankly baffling given that the other members were only too happy to continue doing business with the apar
by collegeburner 3y ago
nitpick, BRICS now that south africa joined. which is frankly baffling given that the other members were only too happy to continue doing business with the apartheid regime, excepting only india: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:International_sanctions_against_South_Africa.svg https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:International_sanctions...
- pi-e-sigma 3y agoThere is nothing baffling, it's just politics as usual. The was West was perfectly fine with Apartheid in South Africa when SA was fighting communists in Africa. Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Regan publicly called Nelson Mandela a terrorist. When South Africa wasn't need anymore all of sudden Western countries started to care about Apartheid.