BRICS and the Cowardice of the Colonized Mind
A coalition of nations that learned to kneel and forgot how to stand.
The kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro should have been the moment. But we are lying to ourselves if we say that. The moment came long before. The moment came when the first bombs fell on Gaza. The moment came when the hospitals were struck, when the refugee camps were obliterated, when the children—thousands upon thousands of children—were pulled from the rubble or left to rot beneath it. The moment came when Israel, armed and funded and diplomatically shielded by the United States, began the systematic extermination of a people while the world issued statements of concern.
That was the spark. That was when BRICS should have risen. And BRICS did nothing.
BRICS IS FAILING
Dr. Victoria Panova, head of Russia’s BRICS Expert Council, sat in a gleaming Dubai studio and admitted what we already knew but dared not say aloud: BRICS is failing. Not because it lacks economic power. Not because it lacks numbers. It is failing because its leaders lack the courage to be free.
“It’s a complete silence in th…
