Vladimir Putin invited Nicolás Maduro, who just committed the largest electoral fraud in decades, to "build a fair and democratic system."

Being a leftist and anti-Western dictatorship, Venezuela already meets all the requirements to join BRICS. With Brazil being seen by Russia and China as a central element for the bloc's expansion in the "Global South" and endorsing this dictatorship, everything falls perfectly into place for Venezuela's entry into the forum.

We should also remember that at this BRICS meeting in Russia, another dictatorship, Bashar al-Assad's Syria, will also be announced as a future member of the bloc.

With the entry of Venezuela and Syria, BRICS, which already includes dictatorships like Iran, Saudi Arabia, and autocracies like Egypt and Ethiopia, will consolidate itself as an authentic "axis of dictatorships" with a single goal: to oppose the West. And Brazil, of course, will play a central role in this.