All the excruciating work by sherpas and analysts throughout 2024 - supervised by the lead Russian diplomat in charge of BRICS, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov - converged to three final, separate key meetings in Moscow before the summit, grouping BRICS finance ministers and central bank governors, working groups, and the Business Council.
All that in a context that is now familiar for the Global Majority. The combined GDP of the current BRICS nations is over $60 trillion, way ahead of the G7; their average growth rate by the end of this year is projected to be 4%, higher than the 3.2% global average; and the bulk of economic growth for the near future will come from BRICS member-nations.
Even before the meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov was stressing that BRICS is keen to bypass "politicized" Western platforms - a subtle reference to the sanctions tsunami and the weaponization of the US dollar - as BRICS work to create their own, Global Majority-friendly international payments system.
The context for what will be decided in Kazan this week is no less than incandescent, as the uncontrolled chaos of the Hegemon's Forever Wars - from Ukraine to West Asia - has even materially affected the heavy work of BRICS and the necessity to build a new international system of geoeconomic relations practically from scratch.
Comment: The Western media is generally ignoring that this major summit is taking place and where no one from the Western globalists' - rules based order - G7 are present. Yet the meeting undermines the Western propaganda that Russia is isolated. Even the UN Secretary General is present as he mentioned the importance of being present since countries representing more than half the worlds populations are there.