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polly7

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Fri Apr 27, 2012, 11:14 AM Apr 2012

How a Rising Block of Countries Will Challenge America

TomDispatch.com / By Pepe Escobar
How a Rising Block of Countries Will Challenge America
There's a rising new bloc on the planet: BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa). What does that mean for America?
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Goldman Sachs -- via economist Jim O’Neill -- invented the concept of a rising new bloc on the planet: BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa). Some cynics couldn’t help calling it the “Bloody Ridiculous Investment Concept.”

Not really. Goldman now expects the BRICS countries to account for almost 40% of global gross domestic product (GDP) by 2050, and to include four of the world’s top five economies.
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How a Rising Block of Countries Will Challenge America (Original Post) polly7 Apr 2012 OP
Instead of the PNAC statement, we should have bailed out Russia. WingDinger Apr 2012 #1
Explain how game theory concludes that. The Stranger Apr 2012 #2
When there remained only one superpower, it is fully expected that WingDinger Apr 2012 #3
 

WingDinger

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1. Instead of the PNAC statement, we should have bailed out Russia.
Fri Apr 27, 2012, 12:12 PM
Apr 2012

Game theory mandates a counterbalance to Us hegemony. DUH.

 

WingDinger

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3. When there remained only one superpower, it is fully expected that
Fri Apr 27, 2012, 02:20 PM
Apr 2012

a coalition would form, as a counterbalance against full US hegemony. Our intention was to bleed all others ad infinitum, to fuel our lifestyles.

See king of the hill, the game.

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