Nine countries, including Belarus and Indonesia, will officially join BRICS as partner states in January 2025, expanding the coalition's new
Belarus, Bolivia, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Cuba, Malaysia, Thailand, Uganda, and Uzbekistan will join BRICS as partner countries.
Ushakov noted that these nations have expressed their eagerness to attain this status and mentioned that Moscow is awaiting a response from an additional four countries.
Anybody who thinks joining BRICS will give them financial or physical security is a fool, tbh, but I can't find it in me to condemn proper incentivized diplomacy.