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200 years of hatred of Russia is deeply embedded in the Western narratives.

This article gives a different narrative. One that exposes colonialization. A narrative that speaks to almost all people of the world, even some of those in the West, because the narrative described in this article is a way to work together for the betterment of all.

I recently heard about a study of the differences between monolingual and bilingual people. Bilingual people are better able to ignore irrelevant material because they have to have the other language "at the ready." Monolingual people often handle irrelevant material: suppress or inhibit. The avalanche of advertising and political propaganda requires active effort to handle irrelevant material and most people rely on a dominant narrative because they are overwhelmed to understand what is going on.

If one is trapped in the narrative of "the essential nation" it is hard if not impossible to conceive of a multipolar world.

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Quite. The dominant narrative erects a wall that must be broken. Multilingual people are also more cognitively aware, which is a fancy way of saying they have better BS detectors. Putin was more Russian-centric in his speech today while Lavrov was more cosmopolitan. However, Putin and Kirill both acknowledge Russia's inherent cosmopolitan nature that's a component of Russianness.

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I'm curious, does BRICS find allies in the fair trade movement? It seems to have similar goals to BRICS. I buy fairly traded goods whenever possible. Those of us who do are aware of how unjust the global economic system is.

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Fair Trade was essential prior to the democratization of the WTO, which once it began working for all humanity, the West started to destabilize it which is what the Outlaw US Empire is now doing by refusing to allow a resolution of the dispute mechanism where it's lost many judgments. The key to the non-Western organizations is the basic recognition about the equality of all members, which is why so many nations want to join them.

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Thank you.

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