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🌏 The BRICS alliance is rapidly expanding. Leaders of what was originally a five-member alliance — Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa — held discussions recently with more than twenty other nations, including the UAE and Iran — which have recently joined. More than 30 countries are waiting to enter the anti-Western economic alliance that currently contains nearly half the world’s population.
🇳🇬 A new TV show might bring Nigeria’s baby boom to a halt. Nigeria has an immense youth population; the average Nigerian woman has around five children compared to 1.5 in the West. In recent years, those numbers in Nigeria have plummeted, in part due to TV shows like “Gidan Badamasi,” which satirize having more children than you can afford.
🇪🇺 The European Parliament voted to support building border walls.This week, the centrists in the European Parliament voted with populist-right parties to endorse the concept of border walls at the Union’s borders, as well as the idea of processing migrants in third-party migration centers. These votes are more evidence that Europe is shifting to the right.
🇺🇦 Desertion rates in the Russo-Ukrainian War are skyrocketing.Ukrainian intelligence has determined that 18,000 Russian troops have deserted, but Ukraine’s own prosecutor general has charged over 50,000 cases of desertion from this year alone — double 2023’s cases. The sky-high desertion rates come as Ukraine is having more difficulty getting men to sign up for combat.
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