Putin ain’t that tall.
And Belarus, Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, North Korea, Myanmar, really are not a huge component of the international community… But I get your point
Brics is the group which the short sighted Washington Isolationists miscalculated. When China and Russia, North Korea and Russia both form military agreements with Russia we can no longer simply pivot to Asia. We now have a one front military good for two weeks against a 2.5 front military alligance. We are burning down the international order and it is real assembling itself into an alternative to the US led international order.