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BRICS invites six countries including Saudi Arabia, Iran to be new members (www.reuters.com)
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JOHANNESBURG, Aug 24 (Reuters) - The BRICS group of nations has decided to invite six countries - Argentina, Egypt, Iran, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates - to become new members of the bloc, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Thursday.

The debate over expanding the BRICS bloc, comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, has topped the agenda at a three-day summit in Johannesburg ending on Thursday.

While all BRICS members have publicly expressed support for growing the bloc, there were divisions among the leaders over how much and how quickly.

Reporting by Bhargav Acharya, Carien du Plessis and Anait Miridzhanian Editing by Alexander Winning

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[โ€“] freagle@lemmygrad.ml -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

LOL. Listen to yourself.

I just don't understand what these countries have in common except some vague opposition to 600-years of complete domination by a misogynistic racist genocidal hegemony that oppressed 80% of the world's population, stole trillions of dollars of wealth, killed hundreds of millions of people, and continues to do everything they can to maintain their globe spanning minority dominance.

And then

this alliance is too diverse already, adding more countries like this will make it more diverse, and that's probably bad in some vague way that implies I think an Aryan alliance is generally preferable to a motley crew of shithole countries that are poor and also backwards

[โ€“] awwwyissss@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Always some hyperbolic BS coming from lemmygrad.