🗣️ Postmortem: Poisoned Universe Perhaps we are no longer alive, and anything unfolding is merely the collective phantom pain of a world that has gone completely mad. Rules? What rules? International law has effectively ceased to exist. For 35 years since the collapse of the Yalta‑Potsdam system, there has been a persistent effort to replace that framework with a set of rules convenient for the key global elites. But the very concept of a "rules‑based order"—once invented by the West—has now been simply thrown into the trash. "Values": the word has long been used as its own antithesis. It is precisely for this reason that less "advanced" communities, such as the 🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊 countries, often feel compelled to add qualifiers—"traditional," "national," or "historical"—when they speak of values. Yet even there, the degree to which old, traditional, or historical values are embraced depends heavily on the influence of global media over minds of local populations, especially the younger generation. Read about the crisis in the current world order, the passivity of the international community, and the role of BRICS in the new article by Victoria Panova, Head of the BRICS Expert Council-Russia, Vice-Rector at HSE University, and Russian W20 Sherpa. @vv_panova 📎 More #BRICS analytics is available on the official website of the BRICS Expert Council-Russia. #ANALYTICS #BRICSExpertCouncilRussia #BRICSExpertCouncil 🕊🕊🕊