India will take over chairmanship of BRICS+ grouping in 2026, against the backdrop of the United States’ ‘protectionism’ threatening to upend decades of multilateral consensus.
India has been pleading for long to bring reforms in institutions like the United Nations, IMF, and World Bank, which it believes are West-dominated and don’t reflect current global realities.
BRICS has been pushing for greater trade in local currencies, especially since Russia-Ukraine war began in 2022. ‘No chance BRICS will replace US dollar in international trade,’ Trump says.
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
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