The analysis highlights that the BRICS bloc struggled to achieve a unified stance on the US-Israel war on Iran, failing to condemn the US directly in its summit declaration. This demonstrates the difficulty for BRICS to convert its shared dissatisfaction with the Western-led order into coordinated geopolitical action, largely due to its members' divergent interests and regional rivalries. Despite these limitations, the analysis suggests BRICS' influence may come from changing the bargaining environment of the existing international order, rather than direct confrontation.