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BRICS Is Not One Bloc - It's At Least Three, And Conflating Them Is a Mistake

With India hosting the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi, debate has intensified over whether the expanded 11-member bloc functions as a unified anti-Western alliance. Brazil's top diplomat publicly rejected anti-West framing for BRICS just ahead of the summit, while India's continued participation in the US-led Quad alongside its BRICS membership has renewed scrutiny of how genuinely aligned the bloc's members actually are on…