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India would block strong statements against Russia and inhibit cooperation that benefits the rich world over developing countries. The G7 is essentially just a
by bakuninsbart 3y ago
India would block strong statements against Russia and inhibit cooperation that benefits the rich world over developing countries. The G7 is essentially just a club of western-aligned rich democracies, and India isn't two of those things.
India has little interest in aligning with the west, and little to gain. They are going to continue with a third path, or possibly creating their own block in the future.
- mc32 3y agoThey are already part of the BRICS.
- amadeuspagel 3y agoBRICS is not a real thing. It's just an acronym someone made up, like FAANG. There are no BRICS summits. These countries even have border disputes with each other.
- dragonwriter 3y agoThere have been annual BRIC/BRICS summits since 2009 (South Africa didn’t become part of it until 2011.) BRIC or the BRICs referring to the other four members is an older term, but it has since become something of a superficially, at least, real thing, largely because it being perceived to be real serves (different, for each member) the propaganda interests of the members.
- amadeuspagel 3y agoYeah, I've just read the wikipedia article[1] and it appears a lot "realler" then I thought. Headquarters, even. Bullshitting is the best way to learn. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRICS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRICS
- arroz 3y agoIt’s mostly a propaganda thing to make China (and recently Russia) look bigger I am not sure how India and Brazil benefit from it