> The West is risking the emergence of a new Second World n the form of the BRICS+. Highly skeptical of this ever happening. BRICS is a joke and the countries

> The West is risking the emergence of a new Second World n the form of the BRICS+. Highly skeptical of this ever happening. BRICS is a joke and the countries involved have 0 cohesion aside from some 'America bad' rhetoric, which is not enough to create an actual productive alliance. You should check out their summits where they meet up to disagree on pretty much everything. The greatest threat IMO is from the inside. The backlash caused by income inequality has been channeled into a far-right revival in the west, which may cause existing functioning institutions to basically stop functioning. At that point, it doesn't matter whether the anti-West factions are actually allied or not (they will likely not be, don't think for a second that China/Russia don't have their points of contention. By the end of the decade, Russia will end up being China's puppet and the Russians will not be very happy).