Pepe Escobar REPORTS from BRICS Summit Wrap-Up in Rio for Geopolitics Prime

Pepe Escobar (https://t.me/rocknrollgeopolitics) closes out the BRICS 2025 Summit with a fiery overview from Copacabana — calling it nothing short of a “huge success” for the Global South, despite Western media attempts to dismiss it.

💬 “It was extremely important in every field… in terms of support for BRICS nations who are under fire, literally in some cases, by the empire.”

👉 Final Day Highlights:

🔻 NDB Takes Center Stage: Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov announced a major leap — the New Development Bank is becoming a key platform for financing megaprojects across BRICS, including for partners, “bypassing SWIFT.”

💬 “A new geo-finance architecture and payment settlements architecture,” following the groundwork Russia laid last year in Kazan.

🔻 Full Global South in One Room: The BRICS Business Council brought together an “absolutely outstanding” lineup of projects — from women’s initiatives to national economic proposals.

🔻 A New System, Not Anti-West: Both Lula and Lavrov emphasized BRICS isn’t an “anti-Western club” — but a forum for designing a new model of international relations led by the Global South.

🔻 The Empire Responds — with Tantrums: As BRICS builds real infrastructure, Trump threatens with more tariffs — “10, 20, a thousand percent” — on BRICS members and friends.

🔻 Reform from Within? Not Likely: There was talk of UN Security Council and IMF reform, but Escobar is blunt:

💬 “It’s not going to happen… They’re never going to give anything to BRICS.”

📌 Western pundits may ignore it, but Escobar says the Global South has already taken note. With 85% [this number is a typo] of the world’s population and rising economic weight:

💬 “The G7 is destined to the dustbin of history. The sun is finally setting in Rio… and rising all across the Global South.”

📆 Summit ends — but the work of a new world system is only beginning.