Least Influential member of BRICS?

[JasonDebenah89]

Which country in BRICS has the least worldwide influence?

[OSR stands with Israel]

South Africa

[Lord Halifax]

South Africa

This is the objectively correct answer.

[Middle-aged Europe]

South Africa

This is the objectively correct answer.

[Sestak]

South Africa

This is the objectively correct answer.

[Strudelcutie4427]

South Africa. Also, is Brazil leaving Brics now that they are staunchly aligned with the US/Colombia/Chile

[Del Tachi]

How are the BRICs even a coherent polity at this point?

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

How are the BRICs even a coherent polity at this point?

implying they ever were coherent to begin with?

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Grouping India and (especially) Brazil with China and Russia is hilarious enough, but South Africa being added into the mix is basically geopolitical sh-tposting.

My guess the rationale was "it would look nice if we had somebody from Africa", since there are quite a few much stronger emerging economies than South Africa.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Grouping India and (especially) Brazil with China and Russia is hilarious enough, but South Africa being added into the mix is basically geopolitical sh-tposting.

[Blue3]

I don't think South Africa should have ever been added to the list.


But anyways, the whole original idea of BRIC(S) countries is outdated now. The idea was that these were the fastest-growing economic power in a multipolar world to replace the US.

[dead0man]

is JasonDebenah89 in charge of making horrible polls?  Next in the series will be "A new twenty dollar bill or a kick in the teeth?"

[smoltchanov]

South Africa

This is the objectively correct answer.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

I don't think South Africa should have ever been added to the list.


But anyways, the whole original idea of BRIC(S) countries is outdated now. The idea was that these were the fastest-growing economic power in a multipolar world to replace the US.

The acronym should probably change, but I'd think there's still room for a demarcation line between "decisively part of the US-led global economic order" and "not part of it". Basically sides in the New Cold War.


Or has Trump's "leadership", combined with the normal progress of change, been so destructive to international norms that it's all just a muddled mess now?

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Grouping India and (especially) Brazil with China and Russia is hilarious enough, but South Africa being added into the mix is basically geopolitical sh-tposting.

My guess the rationale was "it would look nice if we had somebody from Africa", since there are quite a few much stronger emerging economies than South Africa.

So maybe BRICK with K for Kenya to keep the acronym similar?  But yeah, this was always a grouping centered around having cool acronym more than anything else.

[Bismarck]

BRICS was always just anti-American Russian nonsense anyway.

[buritobr]

Order of influence

1) China
2) Russia
3) India
4) Brazil
5) South Africa