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Kremlin welcomes Turkey's reported desire to join BRICS (www.reuters.com)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

BRICS is a trading bloc not a military alliance.

Also, BRICS is rumored to be starting its own currency and we have already seen stuff like Sri Lanka using rupees to deal with its economic crisis. That's going to be very attractive to some countries hence the clamour to join.

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