That Dinar is not a bad-looking coin I guess, even if 22-carat gold is too expensive to be used in the real thing. Erbakan died around the time that the de-dollarisation talk started at BRICS, and it seems that most of the D-8 members have either joined BRICS, or expressed some level of interest in joining. How many Islamic countries would have to join in order for Erbakan to have considered membership, or is BRICS just too satanic?
"We are at a point where post-war orthodoxies are coming down."
This seems increasingly true to me. Especially with the recent declaration by the US that UNSC Resolutions are "non-binding". As Arnaud Bertrand says on Xitter, "By doing so, the US effectively destroys the world order it largely created after WW2 because it effectively tells everyone that the set of institutions, rules and norms that underpin it are meaningless."
I'm not sure what Erbakan would have thought of BRICS. On the one hand he liked almost everything that was non-Western. He was hanging out with Saddam in the 1990s and traveled in Central and South Asia a lot (more in part III). On the other hand, it's a financial term born of a Goldman Sachs report, which might have been enough to sour the whole thing for him. It's very hard to know with these guys. It just depends on the time period in his life and a whole bunch of contingent factors like that. His successors definitely like it though.
I'm no fan of Bertrand but agree with the sentiment. The U.S. is sawing off the branch it's sitting on.
That Dinar is not a bad-looking coin I guess, even if 22-carat gold is too expensive to be used in the real thing. Erbakan died around the time that the de-dollarisation talk started at BRICS, and it seems that most of the D-8 members have either joined BRICS, or expressed some level of interest in joining. How many Islamic countries would have to join in order for Erbakan to have considered membership, or is BRICS just too satanic?
"We are at a point where post-war orthodoxies are coming down."
This seems increasingly true to me. Especially with the recent declaration by the US that UNSC Resolutions are "non-binding". As Arnaud Bertrand says on Xitter, "By doing so, the US effectively destroys the world order it largely created after WW2 because it effectively tells everyone that the set of institutions, rules and norms that underpin it are meaningless."
https://twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1772818294363521429
I'm not sure what Erbakan would have thought of BRICS. On the one hand he liked almost everything that was non-Western. He was hanging out with Saddam in the 1990s and traveled in Central and South Asia a lot (more in part III). On the other hand, it's a financial term born of a Goldman Sachs report, which might have been enough to sour the whole thing for him. It's very hard to know with these guys. It just depends on the time period in his life and a whole bunch of contingent factors like that. His successors definitely like it though.
I'm no fan of Bertrand but agree with the sentiment. The U.S. is sawing off the branch it's sitting on.