BRICS is expanding, adding new partners, speaking of justice and international law, but at the same time refusing to condemn Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. Economically, BRICS is trying to build an alternative financial system, free of the Western influence. With how the Trump administration is behaving, that makes sense, but I also think that, in some way, BRICS is a success of Russian propaganda and of authoritarian-leaning countries over democracy-leaning ones.
Still, for something allegedly so big and powerful, it seems to me that BRICS was stillborn. It includes countries that are so different from each other, that there's very little room for statements and decisions they'd all be on board with.