Valdai Club

US President Donald Trump has not ruled out the possibility that he might go ahead with a blockade of Venezuela and isolate the country, in light of the assistance it receives from Russia, China and Iran. However, such sanctions against Venezuela would play out in a situation where its government structures remain loyal to the current leadership, and time is on the side of the government of Nicolas Maduro, and would only lead to disappointment for the United States.

Today BRICS is restoring from identity crisis: the group has neither broken up, nor turned into a formal bleak structure — it is still up, game face on its’ activities. The past stage has been calling for second thoughts. Evidently, nowadays the world needs a new authority, as well as fundamental rethinking of the realities that concern us. Hence, BRICS needs to re-group and come up with its’ own roadmap, says Boris Martynov, Head of Department of International Relations and Foreign Policy of Russia, MGIMO University.    

The inglorious end of the "socialist experiment" immediately caused a backlash: the return of the right of brute force in world politics and unrestricted egoism in social and economic relations. Big capital again, like in the early twentieth century, does not feel the sense of proportion.