Patrick Barron

All children eventually learn that the presents under the Christmas tree come from family and friends, who must pay for them with their own money, and not from Santa Claus.

The US and its Western allies may scoff at this challenge, but it only became possible due to high-handedness (to use the kindest word imaginable) and outright illegality of US actions.

There is much gnashing of teeth and pulling of hair by just about every leader in the West, especially by an almost apoplectic President Trump, over a so-called “sinister threat” by the BRICS.