Besides Losing the Proxy War in Ukraine, NATO Also is Losing the Economic War with BRICS

Besides Losing the Proxy War in Ukraine, NATO Also is Losing the Economic War with BRICS

By Larry C. Johnson – Sonar 21, 26 August 2025

Russia’s Special Military Operation (SMO) has inflicted massive attrition on Ukraine’s military capabilities and has also exposed the weakness and limitations of the NATO countries to provide replacement weapons, ammunition and combat vehicles. The SMO also has demonstrated the superiority of Russian weapons compared to those of NATO. Russia, for instance, has successfully employed at least four types of hypersonic missiles, while NATO has not fielded even one.

But NATO is not just struggling to remain relevant on the battlefield… it also is losing on the economic front to the BRICS nations. Let’s examine the current debt-to-GDP ratio for the NATO members. It ain’t a pretty picture.

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