SHOULD INDIA BE REPLACED BY IRAN IN BRICS?
Written by Michael Thervil
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It's been long said that India is to be considered a weak member within the BRICS block. When BRICS first began, India seemed like a great asset to the core members of BRICS. But as time has gone by, India has gone from questionable to with its wishy-washing ways when it came to aiding in some of the most important decisions in the BRICS block. Fast forward to today, even though India has been able to recently diplomatically reach a boarder deal with China, there is a red flag that has been seen by many observers of the geo-political chessboard around the world; and that is India’s Prime Ministers Modi’s seemingly weak stance when it comes to dealings with not only the Collective West; but with political issues within the nations and standing firm in absolute solidarity of the Global South and Russia.
Prime Minister Modi’s wishy-washy actions can easily be seen when it comes to his stance on the Ukraine-Russia War. On the one hand, he allows India to not only purchase Russian oil and buys 45% of its weapons from Russia, but he does not take a firm stance when it comes to supporting Russia as a member of the BRICS block when it comes to its Special Military Operation in Ukraine. Another instance comes during the Israeli/Palestine/Gaza/Hamas/Ansuallah/Hezbollah War where India sent ammunition to Israel while preaching peace through a two-state solution to the Palestinians. It was also reported that India has also sourced for construction and labor which was largely done by Palestinians in India while allowing Israel to come in and take over their jobs.
While the nations of the Global South and Russia seek to not only establish themselves as a formidable collective powerhouse within both the BRICS block and the international community, Prime Minister Modi as a leader of India seeks to cater to both the BRICS block and to the Collective West at the same time. Actions like this appear to not only be “out of step” with other member countries, but Prime Minister Modi’s actions appear to undermine the reason why BRICS exist as a collective. It's been long said that no one can serve two masters; and in the case of India, we are making the soft prediction that they will find out the hard way in the not-so-distant future.
This is especially true when you compare India to China, a core BRICS member who is seeking to establish itself as the most dominant economic player in the world. In short, what we are saying is that Prime Minister Modi thinks he can change what is, whereas Chinese president Xi Jinping sees the world for what it is. And what does President Xi Jinping see the world as? The Collective West being an unstable business liability to not only the Chinese economy, but the world's economic security. Other BRICS member nations, South Africa, Russia, and Brazil can see and understand that they need to not only quickly diversify themselves from depending on the American Dollar but diversifying their nations economic portfolio’s by promoting and allowing all countries to pay for commodities, goods, and services in their respective monetary denominations. On the surface it seems as if India understands this, but appears too weak to state the obvious, unlike other members within the BRICS block.
President Xi Jinping and all the members internal and external of the core members seem to have a thorough grasp on how the world and specifically the Collective West operates, and they have demonstrated their deep understanding by how they diplomatically navigate the geo-political landscape. There are small rumblings around the world that maybe India as a founding member of BRICS should take a back seat and allow Iran to take its place as Iran seems to be more in line with the rest of founding members of the BRICS block. What are your thoughts? We’d love to hear from you.
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