If Le Pen wins in 2017, should we think about welcoming France in the BRICS to fuck up with the US and the UK?
@panpiotr
Before people start to talk about France acting as a trojan horse inside the organization, I would argue that we already have trojan horses in India and even in Brazil. And if France can bring western interests inside the BRICS agenda, this can act both ways. One thing is for certain, the United States and company are trying to maintain a World Hegemony and prop up a system, while we are merely trying to subvert it. We thrive much more in chaos, and our multipolar arrengement is much less jealous about the loyalties of it's participants, a thing NATO and the EU can't deal too well.
Last but not least, BRICS is all about prestige, it's an organization which has less meat in the bones than what it's popularity would suggest, so by letting France in we are sacrificing much less than the West, which would now have a crypto-Eurasian power deep inside the EU and NATO, organizations which have much more consequential mechanisms to defend.
This could well be a masterstroke. The most significant aspect of the BRICS is the idea that it will act as a catalyst to bring about a post-dollar era, not in the sense that the dollar will collapse, but that it will stop being the only reserve currency, and I can see France seeing this as a net positive under a more continental and nationalistic leadership.