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Putin hosts 36 leaders at Brics summit in Russia

Putin hosts 36 leaders at Brics summit in Russia

Above: Russia's President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with TV host and Director General of Rossiya Segodnya (RIA Novosti) news agency Dmitry Kiselyov during a meeting with the heads of leading BRICS media outlets in Moscow on October 18, 2024. Image copyright: Vyacheslav PROKOFYEV / Contributor / AFP via Getty Images***PLEASE REPLACE WATERMARKED IMAGE***

The Facts

  • As world leaders such as China's Xi Jinping, India's Narendra Modi, and others arrived in the Russian city of Kazan for the three-day BRICS summit on Tuesday, the Kremlin hoped to demonstrate that US-led efforts to isolate Russia on the international stage over its 2022 invasion of Ukraine have failed.

  • The summit's main goal is to accelerate efforts to minimize the number of dollar transactions, so limiting the US's ability of exercising the threat of sanctions to impose its "Western liberal order."


The Spin

The 16th BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia, is very important for the Putin regime, but the fact is that Putin, the war criminal, is becoming increasingly isolated on the global stage. He needs the support and assistance of BRICS nations to continue its war in Ukraine. However, BRICS does not pose a threat to US security.

Russia is not as isolated as Western leaders want us to think. A huge number of world leaders are going to Russia for the 16th BRICS summit to exchange perspectives on current global and regional challenges, as well as to address three major areas of cooperation established by the Russian chairmanship: politics and security, the economy, and finance. The United States' dominion is finished. We now live in a multipolar world.


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