E83: Africa and BRICS assert themselves. What should Europe do?

Major events in Africa have taken place in recent weeks. In Niger and Gabon, coups d’état removed historical European allies from power, adding to a growing list of such events in the Western part of the continent since 2020. New governments in countries like Burkina Faso, backed by broad popular support, are reassessing their deep neocolonial ties with Europe, particularly France. While Paris and its remaining West African allies reject the authority of these governments, and even threaten war.
Meanwhile, a landmark summit of the BRICS group of major emerging economies happened in Johannesburg. The bloc’s leaders stated their intention to shape the global economic order, reduce dependency on the US dollar, expand its membership, and promote green growth.
Could this wave of upheaval in Africa lead to an end to European exploitation? Or will it only result in despotism and corruption? Can the emboldened BRICS really lead the world into a fairer international order? And what should Europe’s place be in all of this?
That’s what we’ll debate with our panel, including Yanis Varoufakis, Nomazulu Thata and Amir Kiyaei. Join us live and send us your comments and questions!
0:00 [Introduction] Lucas Febraro
2:48 Nomazulu Thata
10:00 Yanis Varoufakis
20:54 Questions and comments from the chat
22:10 Amir Kiyaei
27:07 Nomazulu Thata
28:34 Amir Kiyaei
29:37 Questions and comments from the chat
30:34 Johannes Fehr
34:24 Judith Meyer
38:50 Defne Dalkara
41:22 Yanis Varoufakis
56:03 Nomazuu Thata
59:23 [Conclusion] Lucas Febraro
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  • @susanshelit
    @susanshelit8 ай бұрын

    34:31 This!!!! A country, at its soul, has a language! The language of your ancestors!!!! Give up the french language. Speak your native language. Teach it at schools! Then learn english because most people speak it and it is food for trade, but speak, embrace your language!

  • @francescalarp4067
    @francescalarp40678 ай бұрын

    Long Live DiEM25!✊

  • @vasilykatuma5689

    @vasilykatuma5689

    8 ай бұрын

    Away like the brits they bred it...

  • @joeldwest
    @joeldwest8 ай бұрын

    Love love love to all Diem

  • @adin4407
    @adin44078 ай бұрын

    Judith is absolutely right! As long as Africans are expected to speak the colonizers' language, they will unwittingly be granting the colonizers a linguistic advantage in a whole range of areas. Make the colonizers use African languages, if they want to trade with Africa.

  • @kassahunelias1153

    @kassahunelias1153

    8 ай бұрын

    @digital colonizations Are kidding? is it decolonization or recolonization language let alone human language is an asset not liability by learning history of language by reminding it is about knowledge transfer not about translation including ancient language.

  • @jillybe1873

    @jillybe1873

    8 ай бұрын

    I'm multi lingual and lived in different African countries and not as a segregated expat. I suggest having use of common and widely used languages would be an advantage for the African business and diplomatic affairs. A lingua franca is an additional attribute and does not take away from your own language.

  • @ZambeziKid
    @ZambeziKid8 ай бұрын

    SA offers geopolitcial recognition for BRICS.

  • @user-dt5nb6ss9d
    @user-dt5nb6ss9d3 ай бұрын

    51:25 Fragmatic!! In Asia, we have seen that Japan owned a large amount of US debt but was unable to save the Asian financial crisis in 1997, and the assets of Southeast Asian countries shrank. And most of Japan's national debt is purchased by its own people. In 2008, China mainland realized that the United States was using U.S. debt paper to purchase products and began to de-risk it. Hope to see more financial de-risk materials and discussions.

  • @6doWorldAffairs
    @6doWorldAffairs8 ай бұрын

    32:43 I talked to two academics from Ghana who have interesting things to say about coups which challenge conventional western narratives about the coups. We mainly focused on Burkina Faso and Ibrahim Traore. They said that there is more room in Africa for experimentation with new and different political systems.

  • @perlefisker
    @perlefisker8 ай бұрын

    What Europe should do? They should of course celebrate the great news...and shift their suicidal political agenda.

  • @darkbrotherhood3607
    @darkbrotherhood36077 ай бұрын

    Judith’s idea is flawed it focuses on independence and abscondes prosperity, knowledge transfer and global opportunity. If English is abandoned in these countries, their upper class will still adopt it leaving massive inequality of opportunity

  • @stevefrancis4949
    @stevefrancis49498 ай бұрын

    I thought the way brics was going to get away from the dollar was to go to the gold standard

  • @megthornton1371

    @megthornton1371

    8 ай бұрын

    Using their own currencies in the interim for trade

  • @SantizaInternational
    @SantizaInternational8 ай бұрын

    Very apt question from Noma

  • @nebiatyessuwork7139
    @nebiatyessuwork71398 ай бұрын

    Josep Borrell’s garden is dying

  • @tsubotai5587
    @tsubotai55878 ай бұрын

    While I kind of see the point of Judith, I think the idea is terrible, as if we want to grow together as people on earth, need need a common language, and to come up with something like esperanto out of ideological reasons is a just not very clever. Most African nations would have a hard time communicating without the established languages, no matter their origin or historical relevance.

  • @lenarobinson438
    @lenarobinson4388 ай бұрын

    Great to have a African voice.

  • @SantizaInternational
    @SantizaInternational8 ай бұрын

    Very much in agreement with Yanis

  • @lenarobinson438
    @lenarobinson4388 ай бұрын

    Yaris, there is no democracy in Libya now- JUST MISERY FOR MOST OF THE POPULATION. NATO AND US AND FRANCE GOT RID OF GADAFFI!! LIBYA WAS VERY PROSPEROUS UNDER HIM!!

  • @dasheilunga8637
    @dasheilunga86378 ай бұрын

    The question of language as well as any other questions has to be guided by the adequate recourse management. We already have this universal code that we use to communicate, all of us even now here. and yes it's English, love it or hate it, but shal we instead if putting the resource to fight it pay attention to highlight the origins of colonialism when we mind English and still be able to communicate on an eye level with those who's been oppressing? I think we should learn from biology thus for evolution n reappropreate the common language for the good. Takin in account the influences n underlying hazards

  • @7Samadhi777
    @7Samadhi7776 ай бұрын

    Join them in good faith, eschewing all their criminal ways while paying reparations….

  • @ruzicas.5819
    @ruzicas.58198 ай бұрын

    Yaris, so we in EU are on a good path too, we have an enormous trade deficit of nearly 400 billion €? 😳 Maybe euro will be a new dollar?? 😂

  • @melch4040
    @melch40408 ай бұрын

    Almost worked with Jim O'Neil. Evidently his dada was a postman.

  • @mariettestabel275

    @mariettestabel275

    8 ай бұрын

    Postman? .

  • @megthornton1371
    @megthornton13718 ай бұрын

    Egypt seems to be doing OK with ElSisi

  • @christopherbettridge5983
    @christopherbettridge59838 ай бұрын

    It is darker and grimmer, in response to Yanis Varoufakis' comment

  • @megthornton1371

    @megthornton1371

    8 ай бұрын

    Yanks is a negative person He did not stay to persevere for his own country

  • @mariettestabel275

    @mariettestabel275

    8 ай бұрын

    @@megthornton1371 Can you explain this ? I don't understand what you mean

  • @lenarobinson438
    @lenarobinson4388 ай бұрын

    Mandela just carried on with the neoliberal policies! Disappointing

  • @lorenagonzalez71

    @lorenagonzalez71

    8 ай бұрын

    Did he have a choice?

  • @theonly6359

    @theonly6359

    7 ай бұрын

    He compromised a lot and today we are still trying to remove economic apartheid in the country.

  • @Septumsempra8818
    @Septumsempra88187 ай бұрын

    🇿🇦 🇿🇼 🇨🇾

  • @vivalaleta
    @vivalaleta8 ай бұрын

    Good news. Once the US isn't king anymore maybe it can focuss its attention back here.

  • @susanshelit
    @susanshelit8 ай бұрын

    26:00 I háve never understood it and I wíll never understand it: How can non-existent value (the money that they create with the push of a button) hold a country hostage? The dollar has no réal value other than the the USA says so.. Réal value is food on the table and a roof over your head. You can't eat gold nor heat you're house with it. I seriously don't understand so someone please explain it to me (I will, however, continu to believe you're crazy 😜).

  • @kforest2745

    @kforest2745

    8 ай бұрын

    You don’t know why old people hide their money instead of keep it in banks or burn it I gather. Because money is a CLAIM not a store. To understand money you have to first understand those before you who didn’t rely on it. You bring money to a store for exchange of goods and services as you know. What you don’t know is the catch. The old folks aren’t stupid they’ve been through depressions etc there’s never a guarantee your money is safe in a bank REGARDLESS that banks will try to convince you otherwise. You’re right the whole thing is a stupid game from cons for cons it doesn’t benefit you, the catch being that in order for the con to work EVERYBODY has to accept it, meaning EVERYBODY has to feel safe enough to RELY on it. And this is the thing, the old folks don’t think like that they were self sufficient. Money is a claim OVER YOUR HEAD-IF you’re NOT self sufficient, that is. And, of course, “education” today ensures you’re not. Self sufficient homesteads don’t rely on money they rely on themselves and their own labour. So instead of burning money they hide it should they ever ACTUALLY need it when governments try to throw a fast ball. THIS is why you ALWAYS see banks advertising new strategies to bring old folks into banks.

  • @kforest2745

    @kforest2745

    8 ай бұрын

    In other words, ask yourself: Whose life is this? Mine or the banks? Right-IT’S YOURS. Keep it that way.

  • @susanshelit

    @susanshelit

    8 ай бұрын

    @@kforest2745 some twenty years ago someone told me: "You know? Money that the banks 'make' only has real value once they foreclose." In other words, the réal value is labor and what it makes. Everything else is based on fear .

  • @kforest2745

    @kforest2745

    8 ай бұрын

    @@susanshelit Yes, EXACTLY-THAT’S WHAT ‘to rely’ IS (and laziness). So you should notice that EVERYTHING thrown at you IS TO PRODUCE those feelings of fear and laziness. Never rely because the enforcement of that is a crime.

  • @kforest2745

    @kforest2745

    8 ай бұрын

    @@susanshelit btw don’t hide your money at home obviously. And DON’T enable digital currency.

  • @susanshelit
    @susanshelit8 ай бұрын

    55:37 "It's a good coupe if it overthrows fascisme". Also when it overthrows a communist dictatorship.......

  • @susanshelit

    @susanshelit

    8 ай бұрын

    East Berlin for example

  • @jakobsmith4046

    @jakobsmith4046

    8 ай бұрын

    lol tell me you hate the masses without telling me you hate the masses

  • @susanshelit

    @susanshelit

    8 ай бұрын

    @@jakobsmith4046 I distrust fear full masses who will follow anyone just so they feel they can belong to a group. Or are you saying you would actually approve of dictatorship if it's communistic?

  • @megthornton1371

    @megthornton1371

    8 ай бұрын

    America never left Germany after WW2

  • @jakobsmith4046

    @jakobsmith4046

    8 ай бұрын

    @@susanshelit Dictatorship of the proletariat👍

  • @user-ev9to4xx2o
    @user-ev9to4xx2o4 ай бұрын

    A cel phone.to.interprit.language..so.that.no.need.for.one.world.language.😊😊😊

  • @cloudmane4159
    @cloudmane41598 ай бұрын

    Tbh everything that was said apart from what the Africans said was not worth listening to. Weird stream.

  • @Trip4man

    @Trip4man

    8 ай бұрын

    Actually there were some veryyyy useful stuff said. That German woman was soooo right. Moving away from English language is important for example. There's a LOT of indoctrination through Western media! And actually China bans that stuff from the get go. They don't tolerate English monkeybussiness and let their culture be influenced by their ways. Although I think a ban is a little too extreme but... It's a topic to discuss for sure.

  • @cloudmane4159

    @cloudmane4159

    8 ай бұрын

    @@Trip4man i just dont think this is the conversation to say this. Like were talking about self determination and potential imperialist war in africa and this woman is talking about these people regaining their lingual identity. Sure thats a great idea….if fucking France and the UN dont do a special military operation to do some “regime change.”

  • @stevefrancis4949
    @stevefrancis49498 ай бұрын

    Let's hope the West African countries take from the Turkish regime of Ataturk. And make a proper democracy even though Turkey has it's own democratic problems

  • @MuantanamoMobile

    @MuantanamoMobile

    8 ай бұрын

    Lol. You must be joking...it's only painted as being so -democratic- because it was allied with us, and so the -narrative- has always been. In it's current form, it's only used as a -trojan-horse- to -undermine-local-popular- will in service -to-foreign-overlords- using -local-transnational-elites- . We can even see the same process happening here in the Nordic countries...

  • @susanshelit
    @susanshelit8 ай бұрын

    54:43 socialism without capitalism is communisme. capitalism without socialism is fascisme. My dyslectic brain is hurting from trying to write these words but it means that bóth ends of the spectrum will be detrimental if not opposed by opposites. So far, by the way, communisme has the highest death toll in human history ever. People do not see that somehow.....

  • @GnomeChumpski-lv5vv

    @GnomeChumpski-lv5vv

    8 ай бұрын

    Oh yes, the mid century Germans and their capitalism lol

  • @Trip4man

    @Trip4man

    8 ай бұрын

    I think that story about "Communism has the highest human death toll" is a myth..... How do you count people that die from Capitalism??? Because poverty can kill too. And in a lot of ways actually.... Can go from psychological (depression, suicide,...) or physical (job accident, wars,...). That myth comes from Stalin in the Soviet Union and... Those were PARTICULAR times. Stalin had ONLY a religious education... No industrial or management education mind you! And even Lenin had reservations promoting Stalin... He did rise to power with some tricks you know, he wasn't exactly a fair guy. He was a cold blooded bastard basically... I've read that the Russian Famine was in the making for a longggggg time. Agriculture production was declining over the years and Stalin made the mistake (at the request of Soviets) to proceed with the industrialization of the country.... When you industrialize a country... You have to shift the population and resources to that sector! That means food, people, materials and money... And when you have Nazis on your tail... Industrialization WILL have to happen btw. No time for soft change or slow progress. And Stalin proceeded with the collectivization of Ukrainian Agriculture because 1) they're underproducing and 2) time was of the essence. And yeah... He did sell the excess production to make the money to finance the Industrialization. Leading to the infamous Famine. And that's the thing... While Russia (or USSR) was going through major shifts in their country... Which btw were due to a Right Wing regime... The WHOLE world was coming down on them. So they had a famine and Nazis at their doorsteps! Nazis were in Moscow really!!! And adding all that up... They had to push Nazis alllll the way back to Berlin! That is an ENORMOUS effort. So as you can imagine... That adds to the death toll by a lot. Was that due to the regime or to circumstances of the times??!? Hitler was no saint either and he was from the Right wing. People tend to look at things one sided.... Stalin may had been a dumb-dumb but he did INCREDIBLE things. Because USSR became the #1 Superpower in the world. They defeated the Nazis and were launching stuff to Space.... Where Americans haven't even launched ONE rocket. Russians broke all the records - 1st rocket in space, 1st satellite in space, 1st animal in space, 1st human in space and 1st spacewalk. So Communist regimes.... May actually achieve GREAT things. I'm not a Communist btw... I do lean to the Left but I'm not an idiot. First I study, then I decide what to be. I would love to hear Russians talk about this... And there are Russians who adore Stalin... But so far, not many of them talk about him. So I got my info from reading. Maybe I'm right, maybe I'm wrong... But I think people can't say simply that "Communist regimes are BAD". I think it depends on a LOT of factors actually

  • @joeldwest

    @joeldwest

    8 ай бұрын

    Communism is the good stuff.

  • @susanshelit

    @susanshelit

    8 ай бұрын

    @@joeldwest Communisme has the highest death toll in Human history and is precisely because ppl like you think that totalitarisme is good so long as it pretends to serve the greater good. Read The Gulag Archepelago.

  • @lynnjohnny01

    @lynnjohnny01

    8 ай бұрын

    To remind you, 90 million people starved to death in the past decade UNDER CAPITALISM. More people are killed under capitalism in a decade than communism did in a century. British capitalism wiped out 1/4 of the Irish population. Not to mention the two world wars and the Holocaust caused by capitalism. So no, CAPITALISM HAS THE HIGHEST DEATH TOLL IN HUMAN HISTORY EVER, people do not see that somehow. You are just repeating a lie told by those in power, please

  • @dimitrisbostandas8705
    @dimitrisbostandas87058 ай бұрын

    🤔 το τοξικό σύνδρομο, ΔενΥπάρχειΕναλλακτική #TinA #ThereIsNoAlternative της Θάτσερ αναπτύσσεται αλματωδώς. 😢 😳

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