I definitely think that BRICS will be the alliance to watch going forward. BRICS controls large swaths of commodities and manufacturing. For example, China alone has a bigger manufacturing base than US and EU combined. The BRICS has already overtaken the G7 in global GDP, and working on a reserve currency backed by a basket of currencies.

I see it as part of the last breaths of the industrial age and while in a static world without AI it would become a serious powerhouse,that is not the world we are going into. No centralized power is safe from AI as their reign is coming to a conclusion. We will laugh in the future that we even had boarders and counties back in the olden days. This video has me smiling as it is so darn funny as it sure feels like it is where we are going. https://youtu.be/gAeBIc3iQTI

It's nice to see alternative power structures to rise and challenge this awful monopolar world.