BRICS to SWIFT: “Hold My Ruble, We’re Taking Over the World!”
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, fresh from a CIS Council of Foreign Ministers meeting in Almaty, dropped a bombshell that could make SWIFT rethink its life choices. Lavrov, with the confidence of a man who’s just discovered a secret stash of vodka, announced that BRICS is working on a payment system so inclusive it might as well come with a “Welcome” mat for non-members.