It encourages not taking BRICS seriously. Which is absolutely correct. BRICS as an organization is a joke. The individual countries should be taken seriously.

It encourages not taking BRICS seriously. Which is absolutely correct. BRICS as an organization is a joke. The individual countries should be taken seriously. Which western countries finally have started doing over the last couple of years. The watershed moment was Russia’s attack on Ukraine. It finally dispensed with the neocon idea that they could spread free market democracies in Russia and China by simply trading with them.