The spirit of NAM would prevent it from being aligned within a geopolitical/military structure; but as China advances One Belt, One Road (OBOR), the New Silk Roads, into which the Russia-driven Eurasia Economic Union (EEU) will eventually merge, that is progress according to the interests of NAM.
These -- OBOR and EEU -- are the only integration project in the world for the foreseeable future, centered on Eurasia, of course, but with multiple ramifications across Asia, Africa and even Latin America; the Chinese-proposed Atlantic-Pacific railway, for instance, from Brazil to Peru, can be seen as a South American Silk Road.
NAM's holy trinity of multilateralism, equality and mutual non-aggression is also replicated by the BRICS union -- which next month in their summit in Goa should be advancing practical development mechanisms such as the New Development Bank (NDB) -- which, for all practical purposes, also will progress according to the interests of the Global South.
A way out for Venezuela from now on is to strengthen alliances with Latin American integration groups side by side with NAM and in connection with BRICS and the G20 -- all striving for a multipolar world and away from the pathetically medieval punishment incarnated by Exceptionalist sanctions.
An extra key item was discussed at the summit; a reorganization process, as Maduro coined it, of the UN system, especially the UN Security Council. In realpolitik terms, that's not gonna happen. As it stands, Russia is the only permanent member open for this kind of discussion.
Realpolitik also dictates that NAM nations will continue to be marginalized -- and ruthlessly exploited -- by sophisticated neocolonial mechanisms embedded in the unipolar logic. So it's NAM against Exceptionalistan; NAM against neoliberal globalization and its torrents of inequality; and NAM against casino capitalism.
It will be a long and winding road. NAM may not have much except a Jakarta-based Center for South-South Technical Cooperation, and a number of joint committees with the Group of 77 developing nations. But they do hold the moral high ground in the fight for a more equal, balanced and decent world.
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