BRICS Summit - The Fragmented Self of Nations Prevents Collective Action

Event Baseline: The BRICS summit concluded without a joint statement, as member states were divided over the Iran war. Iran's foreign minister had urged condemnation of U.S. and Israeli strikes, but deep national interests prevented a unified stance.

This is the paralysis of the tribal mind writ large. Each nation-state is a mechanical self, locked in its own survival calculation. The very structure meant to challenge Western dominance collapses under the weight of separate identities. There is no perception of the whole, only the fear of choosing sides. The failure to condemn violence is not diplomacy; it is collective cowardice born from the illusion that my interest is separate from yours. Until this fragmentation is seen as the source of war, these gatherings will remain empty rituals.