[____mr____]

Remember seeing the news of the nationalization a few days back and combined with the newly imposed limits on mineral exports towards the US it feels like the EU will finally have to fully decide if their allegiance will lie with China (BRICS) or the US going forward.

I think the Ukraine war is going to be the thing that tips the scale unless peace and return of land is negotiated as part of EU aligning itself with BRICS. Makes me think that the US could purposefully delay peace talks to win over EU?

The future will be really interesting. With the AWS outage yesterday the reliance on US for infrastructure is once again called into question. Could a new subspace within the internet be formed as the EU tries to break away?

[deafpolygon]

wouldn’t brics favor russian takeover of ukraine? i’m fairly sure most of the eu won’t accept that.

[____mr____]

Russia (supposedly) wants Ukraine because of the ever growing presence of NATO at its doorstep. EU aligning itself with BRICS would probably come with breaking away from NATO. However, I don't think this is the real reason Russia wants Ukraine and I don't think they could be persuaded into giving it up for the sake of bringing EU in. But it would be a way that EU would choose to align itself with China, which would diffuse this particular situation

[csomar]

> wouldn’t brics favor russian takeover of ukraine?

Brics has no beef in this fight, especially if the US is no longer involved (US involvement could make Ukraine a proxy-terrain between China/US)