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Is BRICS an alliance or an organization?
Is its goal to create am alternative to the Dollar based trade? Is Trump opposed to BRICS and if so why? These are some of the questions considered here.
Dr. Brovkin is an American historian, noe retired, former Professor of Soviet History at Harvard University. He is the author of several books on Russian History and Politics. His latest book, From Vladimir Lenin to Vladimir Putin. Russia in Search of Its Identity (London: Routledge 2024) is available from Routledge.com; Amazon and Barnes and Noble