Everyone wants to get to the Moon, but little do they know that Danny and Derek are the stars in their eyes. This week’s news: the 2023 BRICS summit sees the bloc expanding significantly (0:34); India makes a historic lunar landing (5:19); meanwhile, the DPRK has a disastrous satellite launch (7:11); Japan begins releasing waste water from the Fukushima disaster into the Pacific (8:46); an update on Sudan, where the militant group the Sudan People's Liberation Movement–North has entered the picture (10:11); things remain tense as ECOWAS declares a “d-day” for intervention in Niger (12:25); Wagner Group head Yivginy Prigozhin is said to have died in a plane crash in Russia (15:43); an update of the situation Ukraine, where the counteroffensive continues to inch toward the city of Melitopol (18:14); and a New Cold War update featuring the Japan-South Korea summit at Camp David (23:04) and Chinese military exercises near Taiwan (24:51).
What exactly do you mean when you say "consensus" with regard to BRICS? I've heard people say this about NATO wrt Sweden and Finland, but I believe unanimity is required.
I’m telling you when people use it in connection with organizations like NATO or BRICS it means unanimity. If that doesn’t align with Wikipedia I really don’t know what to tell you.
If you have to draw a distinction it means no specific objection to an action versus an affirmative need for everyone to vote yes. Expansion requires unanimity but operational decisions could be characterized as something less than that.
Unanimity would also mean any nation has a veto. I do not think this is true outside of enlargement, and even then I suspect this is not the case. Why would Canada or Iceland object to anything going on in Bulgaria or Turkey?
I still don't know what the BRICS or G7 actually do.
What exactly do you mean when you say "consensus" with regard to BRICS? I've heard people say this about NATO wrt Sweden and Finland, but I believe unanimity is required.
It’s the same thing.
no... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus_decision-making
but maybe it means something specific in international relations?
I’m telling you when people use it in connection with organizations like NATO or BRICS it means unanimity. If that doesn’t align with Wikipedia I really don’t know what to tell you.
Well, NATO has a definition I guess: https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_49178.htm
That aligns with what I understand: reach agreement without strong objections.
If you have to draw a distinction it means no specific objection to an action versus an affirmative need for everyone to vote yes. Expansion requires unanimity but operational decisions could be characterized as something less than that.
Unanimity would also mean any nation has a veto. I do not think this is true outside of enlargement, and even then I suspect this is not the case. Why would Canada or Iceland object to anything going on in Bulgaria or Turkey?