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V Araujo's avatar

This is a very good format to present these ideas: video and the corresponding text. Thank you and keep up the very good work!

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2033ICP's avatar

This strategy is one typical ancient Chinese approach to a major threat that has been used and tested for centuries.

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Alexis Moore's avatar

Good content but it's clearly written by chatGPT.

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Think BRICS's avatar

Actually, it's Claude! We tweaked a video transcription to make it really easy to understand. If you think that AI was the only thing that wrote it, you're missing the human input that helped with tools like Claude. The real value is in how humans and tools work together.

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Alexis Moore's avatar

ah ok 😊 I'm sure there was a human component too. I have daily conversations with chatGPT so I easily recognize some of the formatting and sentence structures commonly used by LLMs. I'm all for human-AI collaboration.

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Guy St Hilaire's avatar

Great analysis with this explanation .I shall forward to my list of contacts.

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BangJensen's avatar

It’s been protest you can trust USA and especially not Trump. They weaponizes the dollar and use it to black mail other countries That’s not fair in an open world where free trade should be what all countries want. Trump brain dead punishment tariffs is also unacceptable You can’t do business with a country who use threats sanctions conflicts even wars of you do obey their demands. USA is only 4 % of the population and they have a very poor economy built on loans. Their debt are now 37.000 trillion dollars and with Trumps insane BBB it will increase rapidly BRICS represent about 60 % og the population with a bigger BNP than the old broken G 7. It most be possible to reject and boycott USA and force them to follow international laws and respect other countries laws and rights.

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Kent Smith's avatar

As I go through your thesis, it occurs to me that the strategy being described could be used, or at least be useful, IN MANY OTHER APPLICATIONS where alternative (i.e., Left) ways of doing things with equality and democracy, are struggling against entrenched (i.e., Right) ways which support hierarchy and privilege. The Stockholm Resilience Center (SRC) has an extensive 'MOOC' course on Youtube with a focus on successful transformations. SRC research overwhelming presents the case that for successful transformations one must be building and testing your alternative structures and systems at least while you break down the resilience of the existing system you wish to replace, if not before. So, my EXTRAPOLATION ON YOUR THESIS on BRICS' strategy is, for example, here in the U.S., to replace the dominant for-profit healthcare system you must, at the same time you're working against the status quo, be building and testing that which you want for an alternative. Local, state, regional single-payer collectives, for example. But as you posit, the strategy leading to this transformation could follow the BRICS example....

• "The point isn't replacing [private healthcare]—it's ending the need for it."

• "This isn't theoretical. This is the plumbing of a new... system being laid in real time"

• "And with enough leverage, you don't need to kill [private healthcare]. You just stop needing it."

• "The question isn't whether [Medicare-4-All] will kill [private healthcare]—it's whether [private healthcare] will kill itself through its own weaponization."

– See what I'm getting at?

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Think BRICS's avatar

Absolutely! You've got the main strategy down: building alternatives while the old system weakens itself. The BRICS playbook is a winner: create parallel systems, reduce dependency, let the entrenched power structure expose its own contradictions.

Your healthcare example is spot on. Instead of going head-to-head with insurance companies, why not try building local single-payer pilots to show that there are better alternatives out there? At some point, people just... stop needing the old system.

We're actually looking into this for economic measurement, too. Putin's been calling for new ways to measure wealth, apart from GDP. We are not familiar with the Stockholm Resilience Center yet, but we'll definitely check it out. The same principle applies everywhere.

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Lord Digital's avatar

Nice summarisation of the essential aim of BRICS. Though it's quite obvious in global south countries, the incessant propaganda by Western media regarding de-dollarization confuses the general public. Great job!

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Mateo Bl's avatar

West use the dollar like a weapon and then they blame the global south pieces of shit

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Christopher Cruz's avatar

Slowly but surely the BRICS are building a new system for the benefit of all

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