Opinion | PM Modi Made India The Bridge Inside BRICS And The Bloc’s Only Door To The West

Ten members leave Delhi tomorrow still needing one government that can speak to all of them and to the West on the same day. That is what PM Modi built this year

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Count the governments at Bharat Mandapam on Saturday morning that are on speaking terms with Washington. Russia is under sanctions in every Western capital. Iran has been at war with the United States since February. China is in a fight with Washington and Brussels that neither side expects to end. Egypt and Ethiopia are useful to the West and distrusted by it. This looks like an axis, and Washington likes naming axes, but it has not named this one; one can wonder all they want. The reason is sitting in the chair.

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A Room That Should Not Exist

Start with the fact that these leaders are in one building at all. Two of them stand on opposite sides of a war. Six months into the US and Israeli war on Iran, Tehran still holds the Strait of Hormuz closed, and Washington still blockades Iranian ports. The UAE declared its willingness to join a US-led military effort to secure the strait. This has already happened.

And now, this week, the war grew. The US military struck five Iranian tankers on Tuesday night, sinking one, and Iran hit 10 ships near the strait in reply. By Friday, Yemen’s Houthis had taken the port of Mokha and the island of Mayun inside the Bab el-Mandeb, their largest gains in years, and Saudi Arabia had shut its East-West pipeline after drones from Iraq struck it. Two Iranian sources told Reuters that Tehran had ordered the Houthis to attack Saudi Arabia and promised them more money and weapons. Pezeshkian flew to Delhi to discuss the war. Abu Dhabi’s crown prince flew in from the other side of it.

Next, there are two leaders that share a river and little else. Egypt stayed away from the Renaissance Dam’s opening last September and called the construction illegal, and after Ethiopia announced three more Blue Nile dams, its foreign........

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