Implications of BRICS Summit and Global Balance of Forces

As the much-hyped Ukrainian counter-offensive fails to produce major military breakthroughs, officials in the West are becoming concerned that their proxy war against Russia is not going according to plan. But instead of negotiating a lasting peace, the instinct of the war makers is the opposite – double down on massive arms shipments, and insist that Ukrainians die in even larger numbers.

Brian Becker is joined by Walter Smolarek, the editor of Liberation News.

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