Ngl I feel this event would likely lead to the US invading Saudi Arabia with "newly found" evidence of them behind 9/11 alongside some other false flag attack
There is no universe where the US invades the country that holds the holy cities
They do that they don't just lose Saudi Arabia they lose every single Muslim country from Pakistan to Morocco, 75 years of mideast policy up in smoke
The US would rather nuke Riyadh then invade the whole country
Nah, it will be a CIA color revolution for sure. They'll find a Guaido figure and install him. Hire mercenaries, etc. Bonus points for hiring the Ukraine nazis for the operation.
They'd probably false-flag assassinate MBS and use that opening to install someone else.
Gonna be honest with the way the US is going I feel it'll be seen as a positive to go to war with the "muslims of the world", either that ot a coup attempt occurs in Saudi Arabia or a flat out nuke is detonated with no sources on who's responsible. Remember that without the petrodollar the US dies, something every CIA ghoul and warhawk will never let happen.
after the US turns to christian fascism, it will proclaim the Last Crusade which will end up bankrupting it so utterly that new england falls to islamic quebec's Neo-Reconquista
First I've heard of BRICS. Is the end of banking hegemony on the horizon?
Really? BRICS has been around for a while. Though it kinda died down in the 2010s.
I guess I was familiar with the concept but not the name :shrug-outta-hecks:
I think it just represented the “emerging” economies of the 2000s, rather than a cohesive socioeconomic/political bloc. It still doesn’t, really.
Oh, it's been around. It just doesn't get reported, for obvious reasons. They don't want anyone thinking it's a viable other-than-America group to belong to. You'll notice this came from South African media, which is the S in BRICS.
This Ukraine bullshit is really driving other nations into the hands of BRICS. It's a real bloc, with real potential. It's got a ways to go to match the US/NATO bully though. But just watch it grow. It's like saying an 8 year old boy is worthless because he's a skinny beanpole. Wait until he's 18 and is 200 pounds of wiry muscle.
I don't think it's ever going to be a "bloc" like NATO, nor is it going to try to. India, for example, has major beef with China. They're not even in the Belt and Road. While they have good relations with Russia (going back to the Soviet Union), they've been turning more and more towards US since the 2000s. And Brazil's future depends entirely on these elections. South Africa is too small to matter at the global scale. A more useful framework would involve the cooperation between the enemies of the Western order - China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela etc. They also aren't a bloc though.
I know China is trying to establish its own institutions to oppose the Western ones, and its succeeding, at some levels. That's where the opposition to US/West will come from.
NATO wasn't so much about being cooperative, it was about being against the Soviet Union. Likewise BRICS is about being against the US-led tyrannical order.
If the usa complains even midly Saudi's should do a press conference to reprice oil in yuan or rubles
