They think BRICS is some major pretty tight knit alliance like the EU instead of some loose economic alliance, plus even Brazil voted yes for the recent Ukraine UN vote.
As an economic alliance, OPEC (not even including OPEC+) more tight knit and influential than BRICS is.
BRICS is at this point is less of a thing than the goddamn African Union in every way imaginable, since atleast the African Union has some vague ass official powers and responsibilities (
to the tune of a watered down UN solely within africa but still...) and those who simper about how its gonna become some new almighty super-superpower block that will effortlessly curbstomp the west because of muh global south and muh petroyuan and muh belt and road and muheurasia make UNITED AFRICA SUPERPOWER 2020 jigaboos look downright intellectual and educated.
The B regularly votes for russia to GTFO ukraine at the UN and has delivered precisely zero fucking assistance in any way shape or form to R for the last year
The R is currently getting its shit punched in by a country with half the military budget of fucking morroco
The I is a barely functioning third world mess whose main geopolitical interest is preventing itself from disintegrating, and is currently in a decades long border war with C and has accordingly aligned itself firmly with NATO in the pacific while bilking R for nearly free oil and not offering so much as a word of encouragement
The C is busy plugging every imaginable leak in its economy and society, is in an aforementioned border war with I, is draining R of its bottom rate resources, and is refusing to do anything to assist R that might severely irritate NATO and thus cause extra pressure on its house of cards
The S is fucking south africa.
Needless to say ofcourse, the political elites of each letter of the BRICSGBTQ+ alphabet have been religiously funnelling their nations wealth and assets to western nations either to fund their own grotesque consoomer lifestyles at home with all the western creature comforts they desire, or to live the high life at european capital cities while their bastard offspring attend the most expensive private schools and universities their country's infrastructure budget can afford, and have shown precisely zero fucking interest in atleast spending their kickback bux in their home countries, let alone those of their BRICS "allies"