Lula is indeed aligned with some of the US Democrats’ liberal-globalist foreign policy goals, but BRICS isn’t an anti-Western bloc, nor is India backstabbing Russia.
Five original founders plus the first batch of new members, almost all have some larger than life ego hidden under the name of nationaldignity and honor. Focusing on trade and finance multi-polarity is already difficult; making it a political or even military block is pushing too far. A wise guy (not me) said before: most people tend to over-estimate what can be achieved in the short term, whiile under-estimate what can be achieved over the long term. If USA was a big ship and dificult to turn around, then the whole world is like a ball floating in a whirlpool: too many forces are asserted all the time when we hope countries are NOT lead by dictators.
Lula was endorsed by the WEF, so the censorship and authoritarianism his government is trying to impose on Brazil is no surprise. How that impacts Brazil's role in BRICS is beyond my knowledge. Modi is first and foremost a Hindu Indian nationalist, so he will do what he thinks is best for Hindu nationalism at home and Indian nationalism in general abroad.
I certainly don't see Modi as subservient to the US Empire.
Five original founders plus the first batch of new members, almost all have some larger than life ego hidden under the name of nationaldignity and honor. Focusing on trade and finance multi-polarity is already difficult; making it a political or even military block is pushing too far. A wise guy (not me) said before: most people tend to over-estimate what can be achieved in the short term, whiile under-estimate what can be achieved over the long term. If USA was a big ship and dificult to turn around, then the whole world is like a ball floating in a whirlpool: too many forces are asserted all the time when we hope countries are NOT lead by dictators.
Lula was endorsed by the WEF, so the censorship and authoritarianism his government is trying to impose on Brazil is no surprise. How that impacts Brazil's role in BRICS is beyond my knowledge. Modi is first and foremost a Hindu Indian nationalist, so he will do what he thinks is best for Hindu nationalism at home and Indian nationalism in general abroad.
I certainly don't see Modi as subservient to the US Empire.