Nearly three years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine saw Moscow condemned by countries globally, leader Vladimir Putin is staging a summit with more than a dozen world leaders – in a pointed signal from the autocrat that far from being alone, an emerging coalition of countries stands behind him.
They are treating it as if BRICS is trying to be like it’s NATO, where everyone should be subservient to the primary member (i.e. In this care Russia), but it’s not like that so they are considering it a show of weakness.