Global order

Global order

Photo of leaders at the BRICS meeting in South Africa this week. Photographer: Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images Europe

BRICS shows it's little more than a meaningless acronym

The group seeks to counter US influence but mostly practices cynical expediency

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, meeting during the Casablanca conference, preparing the Normandy and Italy landing, which lasted from Jan. 14 to 24, 1943. Photo: Foreign Policy/GETTY IMAGES

The postwar global order that never happened