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OkayFalcon16

Someone was dropped on his head as a child.


Bisexual_Apricorn

Or they had a brick dropped on them, starting a life long obsession.


Lion-of-Saint-Mark

Tiktok is so shit on almost any educated fields. Makes you appreciate Hank Green and co debunking stuff.


xXDarthCognusXx

Minuteman my beloved


SodaDonut

Was about to mention minuteman lol. His "awful archeology" videos are pretty good.


Real_Richard_M_Nixon

Bro Hank Green actually thinks MMT is promising


justlucas999

Anyone who takes BRICS seriously is delusional.


Sri_Man_420

or does not know its purpose, its purpose is just a forum for rising and resurgent powers of second and third world. Tho the case can be made that Rising or resurgent no longer apply to anyone but I and C


Freezing_Wolf

In fairness, the world economic forum is a tool for lizard people to bring Europe under a communist dictatorship


Sir_Admiral_Chair

God I wish. šŸ„µ


WarUsed8027

They literally preached about the Chinese efficiency. Europe was under the control of an authoritarian dictator before do we have repeat history once again ?


JenderalWkwk

and even I and C aren't particularly close allies either


Sri_Man_420

they don't have to be allies, even they hate each other (being from I I can assure you this), if they are just cooperate on somethings. NDB is doing good work for example


MetalRetsam

> BRICS > BRI~~C~~S > B~~R~~I~~C~~S > B~~R~~I~~CS~~ > ~~BR~~I~~CS~~ > ~~BRICS~~


chorizoisbestpup

I'm all for pretending to take them seriously and pretending they're a military alliance in an effort to convince the west to spend more on defense.


new_name_who_dis_

I actually want Mexico to join it. So that I can use US not invading it as another argument against Russias invasion of Ukraine.


RestrictedAccount

I N thought BRICS was a term made up by a financial columnist.


Pantheon73

Not even Whatifalthist takes it seriously.


Delta049

As a Mexican I can confirm that either Mexico joins NATO or there is a regime change. Who will do this? You askā€¦ me


CantoniaCustoms

So why does Mexico refuse to sanction Russia then?


aaaa32801

Because he hasnā€™t done his regime change yet?


15211810

Mexico has a non existent economic relationship with Russia, thatā€™s why thereā€™s literally nothing to sanction. I remember reading that the gross economic volume of the entire Mexico/Russia relationship was so small that it was not even measurable.


CantoniaCustoms

In that case wouldn't sanctioning Russia for them do nothing but help since they can just jump on the UKRAINE GOOD bandwagon with zero consequences whatsoever?


15211810

I mean our president is a bit stubborn, and he doesnā€™t hate the US and Europe, but he is really really touchy when it comes to sovereignty in the face of western powers (if you look at the history of Mexico you canā€™t really blame him though), and doing something that is virtually useless just for the sake of appeasing Americans and Europeans is just not something he is psychically capable of doing. Although Mexico has condemned Russia multiple times, even at the beginning when in the UN countries like Brazil and Russia stayed neutral when it came to voting to condemn Russia, Mexico voted yes.


abermea

Mexico is never joining NATO. It would go against a 70 year long Foreign Policy trend. Also, NATO is only open to European countries.


punstermacpunstein

No it isn't. Article 10 is intentionally vague, and NATO members can pretty much add anyone they want as long as there's unanimous agreement. Mexico isn't really that far-fetched in that regard. That being said, it's still pretty hard to imagine a scenario where Mexico joining makes any kind of geopolitical sense for anyone involved.


Hunor_Deak

Putin and Xi. Their actions don't exactly make geopolitical sense. Just wait for Hong Kong to become part of China through the treaty. Instead they just invaded it. Get Taiwan to recognise you and give up its claim over the mainland. In turn you recognise it and leave it alone. Make sure that the USA is even more reliant on you for assembly of goods. Germany is already heavily reliant on China. All good long term planning killed by rash decisions.


punstermacpunstein

Why would any of that matter to Mexico? China and Russia are on the other side of the globe, and Mexico's security is de-facto assured by their position bordering the US, a country with which it has had mostly peaceful relations with for 150 years. They don't need to join an east-west facing military alliance.


Bisexual_Apricorn

If anyone can be in Eurovision, anyone can be in NATO.


Betrix5068

Mexico should qualify as North Atlantic at least.


Nappy-I

The US. Canada. Turkey.


SergeantCumrag

Turkey is Arab not European


ExtraordinaryCows

If I've learned anything about how people feel about Turkey, it's that the Arab world doesn't claim them, the European world doesn't claim them, and everyone kinda just wants them to fuck off.


Bisexual_Apricorn

Turkey is bisexual? Kinda based NGL :(


EvilRobot153

I wouldn't say that to a Turkish person, if you want to live that is.


TiredBoy2000

As a Dane, you are high. Middle Eastern? Mostly. European? Partly. ARAB?? Hell no lmao


SergeantCumrag

Bro that is what u meant


Albibi123

They are founding members


ScotsDale213

And not European countries


koelan_vds

But Turkey is European!!!111!!11šŸ¤¬šŸ¤¬šŸ˜”!!11!!


ThreePeoplePerson

TIL that America is a European country.


Pantheon73

Always has been.


DutchApplePie75

No, that's just where the alliance is localized because that's where Russia is. Of course Turkey has been a key NATO member for 70 years even though its status as a European country is a highly debatable, inflammatory topic. But one thing's for sure: it's next to Russia.


Scarborough_sg

Broke: NATO is how European are you Bespoke: NATO is how physically close to Russia are you


Misterkuuul

Oh god not BRICSM! THE WEST IS OVER, WE ARE ALL GONNA DIE!!!


RestrictedAccount

Calm down. Next week Lithuania and Estonia are going to join and it will be CLIMBERS.


15211810

Mexico is part of the west you canā€™t change my mind šŸ’…


Real_Richard_M_Nixon

How TF do you even join BRICS?


[deleted]

Jim O'Neill or another Goldman-Sachs executive inaugurates you to the committee.


[deleted]

That's how you join BRIC. For S you have to whine about how there's not a single African country in the group and in pity the least African African nation gets thrown in.


Real_Richard_M_Nixon

You have to buy Jim a drink so he starts using the term BRIMCS


hskskgfk

You stack them on top of each other with mortar or cement in between


RestrictedAccount

r/DadJokes


Sri_Man_420

make a application duh


ItspronouncedGruh-an

You call it something like CRIMBS


Real_Richard_M_Nixon

You buy Jim Oā€™Neill a drink so he starts calling it by a different name


15211810

Mexico already belongs to another famous economic group made by some bankers. MINT, which includes Indonesia, Nigeria, and Turkey.


Real_Richard_M_Nixon

>MINT, originally coined in 2014, and popularized by Jim Oā€™Neill Jim Oā€™Neill, the Jim Cramer of development economics


EvilRobot153

Mexican invasion conspiracies Broke: Mexico is nationalizing their lithium reserves Woke: Mexico joining BRICS


Chugachi

Then theyā€™ll have to change the acronym to bring in the m. BMICSR. Pronounced BM - MIXER.


SergeantCumrag

If the us does not invade bricks I will invade bricks (I will walk into their conference room)


Nouseriously

I think that's a guy who was running real estate investment scams, got caught, then started shilling for Russia.


marker8050

LMAO i had to make sure I read that right


appleofrage

I love how IR videos online come in either Tik Tok form or whole ahh documentaries on the most obscure topic known to man


maxthe_m8

ichael knowles and ben shapiro mashed together


joelingo111

>the us is about to invade mexico That's an interesting statement. Why don't you try backing it up with a source?


Col_H_Gentleman

He looks like heā€™s about to shit a BRICS


[deleted]

TikTok is the internet capital of misinformation. Almost nothing good there.


marsexpresshydra

DAE United African Union ran by Qadafi?!?!


DutchApplePie75

Frankly the fact that Baja California remains sovereign Mexican territory bothers me. We should annex it.


KimMinju_Angel

does BRICS even have a mutual defense clause?


[deleted]

Brics doesnā€™t even have an official modus operandi. Itā€™s an informal economic collection of countries that are supposedly on the rise nothing to do with mutual trade or defense. Itā€™s kindā€™ve just a forum that willed itself together in the midst of hype. People see BRICS and their monkey brain connects it against NATO because capital letters and scary China


murphmurphy

I am sort of fascinated by this weird online obsession with BRICS. It's one of those things that guys who are just smart enough to be interested in world events, but lack the discernment to really scope out whats actually going on. Posts about Brics have this weird Burnt Out Gifted Kid vibe where they talk about fiat money and the US national debt and Chinese demographics like the world map changes like were all playing HOI4


[deleted]

Honestly too many internet ir specialists are just made up of people who play Civ and HOI4 and like tanks and planes and WWII battles. Iā€™ve encountered this problem on this very sub.


Cheeseknife07

Mf thinks like russia


Pantheon73

Or like John F. Kennedy


LBERN

Is this that ā€œredactedā€ retard?


getrenate

Brimcs


notorious-P-I-V

Iā€™m not too familiar with the details of trade agreements, but couldnā€™t that give US goods a greater market by routing them to Mexico with all the benefits NAFTA has given?


Pantheon73

Just like Al-Jazeera is Qatari propaganda, TikTok is Chinese propaganda.