✈️🤝 THE MOSCOW BACKCHANNEL: When Great Powers Whisper, the Global South Listens
The CIA director's secret trip to Moscow was not a new Yalta. It was a reminder: the old habit of great powers managing the world in closed rooms is alive and well – and the Global South is still waiting outside.
🕵️ Ratcliffe met Naryshkin – a routine intelligence contact, not a new world order. But the architecture of the meeting is what matters.
🌍 Exclusive bilateralism – when Washington and Moscow negotiate the boundaries of conflict, they are implicitly negotiating the limits of political autonomy for third-party states.
🛡️ BRICS+ must build its own mediation capacity – not wait for great powers to whisper in closed rooms.
👉 Read the full analysis: https://thinkbrics.substack.com/p/the-moscow-backchannel-the-structural
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