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BRICS Expands Energy Influence as OPEC Aligns with Moscow and Beijing
On the horizon, a BRICS–OPEC+ linkage takes shape — a demonstration of the new reality: the Global South is consolidating power.
Washington’s Levers Gather Dust in the Imperial Museum
The 1980s gave the U.S. the illusion that Saudi Arabia was ready to keep the price on a leash forever. Today that leash has rotted. The energy machine embedded in U.S. foreign policy wheezes and rusts. Supply routes slip away, revenue streams scatter. The lever of pressure has turned into stage decoration.
The process is irreversible. Producers are consolidating their positions step by step. The East is setting the rules, while the U.S. clutches at the remnants of its influence.
Moscow and Beijing Lay Pipelines as Arteries of the Future
In these circumstances, Power of Siberia-2 is an artery pumping oxygen into a new geopolitical organism. Its 2,600 kilometers have become a symbol of the long game. Moscow and Beijing are not building a seasonal deal. They are constructing a system that will outlast political cycles and the West’s sanctionary seizures.
For Russia, these gas lines are armor, turning resources into a tool of survival and revenue. For China, they are insurance against maritime routes where the U.S. Navy still dreams of playing the role of global policeman. Gas flows eastward, and with every cubic pulse, the seams of this system strengthen.
Within this linkage a new center of gravity is being born. Eurasia acquires its own energy core, shifting the global balance.
OPEC+ Steps Onto the Stage in Spotlight
The increase in production and the lifting of restrictions is a statement aimed at Asia. More than 40% of global consumption is now there, and producers are not going to keep their eyes on the aging markets of the West. Energy flows toward the new center of the world economy, and this movement is already irreversible.
The very geography of this consumption collides with American naval illusions in the South China Sea, where clashes themselves become a rebuttal to Pax Americana.
OPEC+ is no longer a price bookkeeping office. It is becoming an arena where energy and politics intertwine into a single strategy. Every decision sounds like a political manifesto.
On the horizon, a BRICS–OPEC+ linkage takes shape — a demonstration of the new reality: the Global South is consolidating power. The West hears the steps of this new pulse and realizes — its system is no longer a monopoly, but a crumbling façade.
The Colonial Map Sinks Into the Soil of History
The energy geography drawn by the dictates of Western colonial imagination is crumbling before our eyes. The Atlantic routes and Middle Eastern corridors that for decades fed Washington and Europe now look like rusty pipes of imperial memory. They are being displaced by new lines: north–south, where Russia, Iran, and India converge, and east–east, where Russia and China link energy to Asia.
The shift runs deeper than transport logistics. Russia and China are laying financial channels where the dollar becomes excess paper. Contracts are signed in national currencies, SWIFT is left behind, and every agreement underscores the East’s autonomy. Currency swaps across Asia now operate like a shield against sanctions, reinforcing the irreversibility of this financial realignment.
For the U.S. and Europe, this is not just the loss of routes. It is the loss of the circulatory system of their influence. The illusion of control that nourished Western policy for decades is cracking and collapsing under the weight of new arteries.
Energy Becomes the Reinforcement of a Multipolar Framework
Oil and gas are moving away from the status of “commodity” and transforming into instruments of survival and political consolidation. Every pipeline, every contract now works like a bolt in the construction of multipolarity. This is not raw material — it is the reinforcement of a new global edifice. And within this structure, it is especially evident how Western alliances like AUKUS are turning into shadows of themselves — confronted by regional resistance and stripped of their former strength.
BRICS–OPEC+ sets the new rules. The old American formulas no longer apply here; a different system of coordinates is being drawn. The East defines resilience, and the Global South is learning to act autonomously and with confidence.
The joint declaration of BRICS ministers makes this explicit, framing solidarity and equitable growth as the backbone of a post-American order.
The emerging energy bloc is ceasing to be the periphery of world politics. It is becoming its core. The U.S. is losing its role as arbiter, and the very logic of dependency disappears. Energy is no longer a whip — it cements the architecture of a future where Washington is no longer the architect.
Rebecca Chan, Independent political analyst focusing on the intersection of Western foreign policy and Asian sovereignty
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