Are BRICS countries already challenging the US-led world order?

The American empire has peaked “and we are connected the mode down… and we effort to clasp on”, says Richard Wolff, prof emeritus of economics astatine the University of Massachusetts Amherst, who notes that the BRICS conjugation of economies (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) is gaining an borderline implicit the United States.

Wolff tells big Steve Clemons that it’s “a precise hard acquisition for Americans” to realise that they mislaid wars successful Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq. And contempt unconditional enactment from the US, Israel volition not beryllium capable to prevail successful the agelong run.

“Israel is simply a state of a fewer cardinal radical and is not going to power and tally the Middle East … with oregon without the United States,” argues Wolff.