The BRICS summit in New Delhi is intended to demonstrate how emerging economies can exercise global leadership without the West, but conflict in the Middle East is exposing divisions within the group. India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is hosting leaders from China, India, Russia and Iran as energy prices surge and the war disrupts global energy corridors. BRICS, originally named for Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, has expanded to include Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, the United Arab Emirates and Indonesia. The group hopes to project solidarity amid tensions over the Trump administration’s tariffs and the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran, although expectations are low that the loose bloc can fill the leadership gap or broker a diplomatic exit from the crisis.