Jeffrey Sachs: BRICS Builds a New World - Without the West

Europe's global ascendancy from 1750 to 1950 was an anomaly driven by the wealth extracted from the Americas and a technological breakthrough in organized scientific research.

After completing its continental expansion around 1890, the U.S. immediately sought global empire by launching wars to seize territories like Hawaii, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines.

After WWII exhausted European powers, the U.S. and Soviet Union emerged as superpowers, with the U.S. creating global institutions like the UN, IMF, and World Bank to institutionalize its leadership.

The dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991 triggered a delusional U.S. belief in permanent unipolar hegemony, leading American leaders to believe they could unilaterally run the world.

Sovereignty after 1950 allowed former colonies in Asia to industrialize, leading to a profound economic recovery where Asia now holds half or more of the world economy.

The BRICS bloc represents nearly 50% of the world's population and about 41% of global output, significantly outpacing the G7's 29% share of output and 12% share of population.

Current U.S. conflicts in Ukraine and Iran are driven by a hegemonist desire to maintain global dominance through military force, despite plummeting global support for U.S. leadership.

The BRICS New Delhi declaration supports a multilateral order, calls for regenerating the world trade order, defends the UN, and signals support for a Latin American woman as the next UN Secretary General.

The U.S. security state, think tanks, and universities remain delusional, refusing to accept a multipolar world and instead clinging to fantasies of continued dominance and containment of China.