Dump The Dying Empire: Australia Must Join BRICS Now or Face Decline
By Jamie McIntyre (Founder of Australian National Review and Political Commentator)
Australia is sleepwalking into irrelevance.
While the world rapidly reshapes itself into a new global order, Australia’s political class remains stuck in a dangerous habit: clinging to dying empires and calling it “alliance.”
We’ve seen this movie before.
Australia blindly relied on the British Empire for protection during World War II. Then came the brutal wake-up call — the fall of Singapore in under 48 hours. That illusion of security evaporated overnight.
Now history is repeating itself.
Only this time, it’s the United States.
Australia continues to tie its future to an ageing empire riddled with debt, internal division, endless wars, and declining global influence. Yet our leaders still act as if Washington’s power is unquestionable and permanent.
It isn’t.
The unipolar world is over.
And the rise of BRICS is proof.
⸻
THE REAL POWER SHIFT IS ALREADY HAPPENING
The BRICS alliance — including nations like Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — is no longer a sideshow.
It is rapidly becoming the dominant global bloc.
New members and aligned nations are expanding its reach, including countries like Iran and Indonesia — both critical to Australia’s regional and energy future.
Together, these nations represent:
• The majority of the world’s population
• A growing share of global GDP
• Massive energy reserves
• Increasing control over global trade routes
Meanwhile, the Western system is creaking under its own weight — drowning in debt, inflation, and geopolitical overreach.
Yet Australia remains locked into it.
Why?
⸻
A FOREIGN POLICY WRITTEN BY OTHERS
Australia does not currently have an independent foreign policy.
It has a borrowed one.
For decades, Canberra has followed Washington into wars, sanctions, and geopolitical conflicts that have delivered little benefit to ordinary Australians — but plenty of economic blowback.
Energy insecurity.
Rising fuel costs.
Supply chain instability.
These are not accidents.
There are consequences.
Australia is an energy-rich nation. It should be one of the most secure and self-reliant countries on Earth. Instead, it behaves like a dependent state — exposed, reactive, and strategically vulnerable.
That is a political failure.
⸻
TIME TO THINK LIKE A SOVEREIGN NATION
