All they are trying to do is make the world fair to them, not to make it more fair over all. Russia and china have a much darker record or financial mismanagement and human rights abuses then the US. As soon as their new super currency becomes active, it will suffer a mismanagement crisis and result in an epic fail and return to the dollar.

This is a beginning, to be built on bit by bit as Meslin says, but it must be inclusive of everyone. Certainly there needs to be time for the structures to develop, influenced by a differnt mind set, but after this, countries like the US should be wanting and able to be part of it, not in the old style controlling spectre, but as a normal economically active trading nation. Yes the US has done some heinous diabolical things of late, and certainly has part of its population with deeply entrenched, warped views. However, still many ordinary Americans have good economic core values. These are the ones that need reaching out to, to bring back old style American values to their nation. Creating another block is not the way to go. Creating a free world economy based on soveriegn national units enabled by BRIC is the way to go.