Why is this downvoted? I’m not a huge fan of BRICS either but this is certainly news worthy
No idea. I can see not up voting it. I think it’s a bit of a non-story. Country looks to maybe join a group containing it’s some of it large trading partners. This group might or might not do something on the future. Only interesting bit is it’s the BRICS.
But a down vote just feels unnecessary. The story is factual. The source is fine. It might be relevant to someone.
It’s not maybe joining, it’s definitely joining.
I see 11 up 2 dow. There’s always gonna be about 10-30% downvotes.
I forgot that federation means vote counts can be different for different instances. On mine it was sitting at -2 when I posted my comment
Rediquette is making its way to Lemmy apparently.
Can’t wait for the neolib astroturfing to make it’s way here too
Empires usually only last about 200 years, the USA is already 150 years old or so.
I imagine advances in communication and transportation technologies play a factor as well, we see things develop at a much faster rate today than they have in the past.