Top Three Videos – June 18, 2024

Impact of US policies on Iran and the Middle East

• Iran’s entry into the Shanghai Cooperation Organization signals a massive expansion of influence beyond Western policies.
• The nuclear deal played a crucial role in removing a number of sanctions, benefiting the average person in Iran by enhancing trade and improving their daily lives.
• The United States and its allies supported Saddam Hussein in invading Iran and provided him with chemical weapons, causing the deaths of thousands of Iranians and Iraqis.
• Iran fulfilled its obligations under the nuclear deal, but the US violated it from the very beginning and imposed maximum pressure sanctions to make people suffer.
• The Israeli regime is detrimental to Western interests and has destroyed the West’s credibility across the globe by supporting genocide in Gaza.
• Western policies have created so many antagonists that they’re collapsing under the weight of their own foolish policies.
• The West has lost the art of diplomacy, and the trend towards strengthening BRICS and other international bodies with no Western influence is a result of their failed policies.

   

BRICS and the reshaping of global decision-making

• The annual Summit in Russia may announce a new alternative financial system, signaling the failure of Western policies and the growing influence of BRICS.
• The United States is creating an incentive for alternative trade mechanisms and financial institutions, bringing about the downfall of their hegemony over financial institutions through extremist acts.
• China’s rapid growth and advancement in high-tech industries make it a key player in the BRICS expansion, challenging the economic prowess of the United States.
• BRICS is reshaping global decision-making, leaving the West out of the process and creating new conversations and capabilities across the global South.

   

Shift in global power dynamics and financial institutions

• BRICS and global South countries are increasingly moving away from the US dollar and Western financial institutions, circumventing the impact of sanctions and destroying Western soft power.
• The growth of BRICS signals the failure of Western policies and the potential for a shift in global power dynamics.
• “Western leaders because of their arrogance, exceptionalism, and eurocentricism, cannot escape their arrogance and because of that arrogant posturing, their decisions are not based on reason and they’re not rational.”