Geography changes with History. The same is true for Kazan, where the 16th BRICS Summit took place - and where Margherita Furlan represented Italian journalism. BRICS CHECKMATE delivers a ruthless analysis of the fate of the world and of Italy, exploring the new energy and trade corridors and the process of dedollarization. The stakes in Kazan could not have been higher. Here, Eurasia has become Afro-Eurasia. Those who were once hegemonic powers - and who, since the days of colonialism, have been accustomed to ruling the planet - are now increasingly astonished to find that others no longer obey them as they once did.

The so-called "global majority" has gone down in history as the reference point for a new, emerging, charismatic, and unsettling system of international relations, while the crude tactics of divide and rule attempt to delay the inevitable end of the Old Order - denying its own spiritual roots: ancient culture, Christianity, the intertwined legacy of art, literature, science, and technology. In Kazan, we came close to a dangerous frontier. The world is no longer unipolar; America is losing its empire, Italy its opportunity, Europe its life. The global situation is incandescent. And it demands "laboratory experiments." The BRICS are ready.