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BRICS+: India Taps BRICS to Strengthen Energy India, a major global oil consumer relying heavily on imports, has historically been susceptible to fluctuations in Western oil prices and geopolitical pressures
Tuesday, August 12, 2025
By Dr Iqbal Survé and Sesona Mdlokovana
India, a major global oil consumer relying heavily on imports, has historically been susceptible to fluctuations in Western oil prices and geopolitical pressures. This vulnerability, stemming from importing over 85% of its crude oil, exposed the nation to supply disruptions and external political factors. However, collaborative efforts within BRICS are now reshaping India's energy approach. Energy is evolving into a strategic tool for global influence, diminishing reliance on traditional markets and challenging established power dynamics. This shift marks a move away from mere commodity dependence toward a more geopolitically nuanced energy strategy.
Diversification through BRICS Partnerships
India has drastically increased its crude oil imports from Russia. As Western sanctions against Moscow intensified in 2023, Indian refineries leveraged discounted Russian oil. Consequently, Russia's share of India’s total oil imports surged from under 2% before the Ukraine war to over 40% by mid-2024. This wasn't a simple chance to save money; it symbolised a larger strategy to break away from supply chains and financial networks dominated by the West.
India's strengthening ties with Iran, a key energy provider in the Global South and recent BRICS addition, suggest a push to revitalise the stalled Chabahar Port project and restart oil imports previously stopped due to U.S. sanctions. BRICS collaboration provides a buffer against such unilateral limitations by promoting alternative trade methods, such as local currency settlements, the BRICS Pay system, and possible substitutes for SWIFT. These resources directly bolster India's energy independence.
The partnership between India and the UAE, a fellow BRICS member, holds significant importance. Abu Dhabi is not just a key oil provider, but also invests in India’s strategic petroleum reserves and related infrastructure. Further strengthening this robust South-South energy alliance, the UAE’s sovereign wealth funds have jointly invested in India's renewable energy projects, demonstrating a comprehensive collaboration spanning both conventional and clean energy sectors.
BRICS as a Platform for Energy Sovereignty
BRICS transcends a mere convenient alliance, rapidly evolving into a powerful instrument for its members to achieve energy sovereignty. The group's advocacy for dedollarisation, balanced global governance, and cooperation among developing nations is significantly altering the structure of the global energy sector. For India, this shift means a broader range of energy providers, advantageous trade arrangements, and increased independence in its energy-related international relations.
Established in 2015, the BRICS Energy Research Cooperation Platform has facilitated joint studies, technology exchanges, and policy dialogues that significantly contribute to India's energy planning. Notably, India hosted the BRICS Energy Dialogue in 2022, advocating for joint investments in upstream oil and gas exploration and South-South capacity building. This has led to tangible collaborative projects in Africa and Central Asia. In these regions, BRICS members, including Indian public sector undertakings such as ONGC Videsh, are jointly developing oil fields and refining infrastructure.
India's dedication to energy transition gains significant backing from BRICS. Notably, India collaborates with China and Brazil to promote solar energy through the International Solar Alliance. Moreover, BRICS' green finance instruments, such as the New Development Bank (NDB), are channeling funds into India's clean energy ventures. These include solar parks in Madhya Pradesh and wind energy farms in Gujarat.
Strategic Autonomy and Global Realignment
India's energy security is intrinsically tied to the broader geopolitical shift towards a multipolar world. The Global South, historically marked by unequal dependencies, is now asserting its strategic independence. BRICS plays a pivotal role in this transformation, providing India with political and economic stability against the pressure tactics of established powers. This is especially crucial during global disruptions such as the COVID-19 pandemic, sanctions, or financial crises.
While concerns exist that stronger energy partnerships with nations such as Russia or Iran could complicate India's relations with Western powers, India's foreign policy is driven by strategic autonomy, not non-alignment. Western nations must recognize that a self-assured Global South will not sacrifice its energy security to geopolitical maneuvers.
Energy as Empowerment
India's strategic energy realignment within BRICS signifies a profound move towards economic autonomy, not merely a simple shift. Through these alliances, India actively reduces price volatility, ensures stable, extended-term energy resources, and cultivates an energy sector that reflects both its developmental goals and its strategic position in global politics.
As the Global South's influence grows, BRICS establishes a framework for a fairer, more secure energy future, positioning India – with its significant population and development goals – as a key player. In an era of energy instability and geopolitical competition, BRICS presents India with strategic advantages, extending beyond mere oil resources.
Dr Iqbal Survé is past chairman of the BRICS Business Council and co-chairman of the BRICS Media Forum and the BRNN.
Sesona Mdlokovana is Associate at BRICS+ Consulting Group, UAE & African Specialist.
In a few more years, the only forewarning we'll have of inbound hurricanes will be reports from other countries' satellites. "Yo, Florida! Y'all ready for a CAT 5? Possibly arriving in 24-36 hours? What do you mean we should have let you know earlier? It's not our fault you threw away your weather services."
@AVincentInSpace I'm really sorry but come on, we are not as stupid as Americans.
"US President Barack Obama hosted youthful Saudi Arabian Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the White House on Friday, underscoring his guest's meteoric rise and increasingly pivotal role in managing strained US-Saudi ties.
Bin Salman, the king's son and the country's defence minister, has met the biggest of Washington's big hitters during a week-long visit.
He held talks with the CIA director, the secretaries of state, defense, treasury, commerce and energy as well as leading members of Congress.
His meeting with Obama took place in the Oval Office, a rare honor for a non-head of state, one not afforded to the Dalai Lama earlier in the week." middleeasteye.net/news/obama-m…
2 years later: "The CIA has concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman personally ordered the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, despite the Saudi government’s denials that the de facto ruler was involved, according to a senior US official and a source familiar with the matter." edition.cnn.com/2018/11/16/pol…
Don't fall in the imperialist bullshit. @Strandjunker profoundly serves an (warmongering) agenda, don't fall to that. Trump is egomaniac, but all the US pr. served the bloodshed of the world for the profit of empire.
US President Barack Obama hosted youthful Saudi Arabian Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the White House on Friday, underscoring his guest's meteoric rise and increasingly pivotal role in managing strained US-Saudi ties.
όχι, αυτός είναι ο πελούσιος του διπλανού χωριού,και λένε πως κάνει ουσιαστικά πράγματα για το χωριό, όχι πάρτυ. Ο εδώ είναι αυτός που σας ταΐζει σουβλάκια πανελλαδικώς.
- nepiant states they don't like seeing preggo art - somebody replies with "oh but it's good to see your y foo like that sometimes y know" - nepiant replies: "I don't want to raise a kid though, all i think about is the large burden coming the y foos way when i see that"
i mean with how I've grown up it sure does seem difficult to raise a child. i can understand this perspective.
- the horde is alerted and nepiant is viciously torn to shreds
was it the implication that he'd abandon the child? i don't think that was an intentional one
I mean if the perspective of the horde is "reproduce without question and without any regard for your situation at that moment", then obviously I disagree with such a thing. I just made a post saying I wouldn't fuck because of my own god given curses that the child would probably inherit.
On Friday, the first meeting took place between Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump after Trump's re-election — and it was their last meeting in 2019.
An airman was ejected recently from an F-15D Eagle flight before the aircraft took off from Barnes Air National Guard Base in Westfield, Massachusetts.
Just txt a fren who is a retired air force crew chief who worked on F-111s and A-10s. He's like "Yeah I saw that. Morons are told NOT to fuck with the yellow and black handles for a reason. CONSTANTLY told."
In this idiot's defense, he was a recruiter...but still. One of the last things that fkr heard was "don't fuck with the yellow and black handles, understand?" According to my fren.
The online safety act didn’t happen in the UK in isolation. Remember it’s not a coincidence.
The head of Ofcom, Melanie Dawes, is a key member of WEF’s Global Coalition for Digital Safety, also pushing governments to censor anything labelled “misinformation” or “harm.”
Είναι πάγια θέση μου κι εξακολουθώ να την θέτω επί τάπητος. Η μόνη λύση για την ελληνική κοινωνία είναι η επανάσταση. Το ότι αυτή και ειδικότερα η εργατική τάξη δεν πιστεύει σ' αυτήν είναι η δαμόκλειος σπάθη της. Άλλος δρόμος δεν υπάρχει.
"I really #hate #money and I hate that it affects me so much and bashes my head in like a blunt instrument and carves out my heart and then #bills me for it"
💬 0 🔁 30 ❤️ 31 · I really hate money and I hate that it affects me so much and bashes my head in like a blunt instrument and carves out my heart and then bills me for it
Ενδιαφέρον ότι η είδηση που αναπαράγεται για τη φωτιά σε κινητήρα αεροπλάνου που απογειώθηκε από Κέρκυρα παραλείπει να αναφέρει ότι ήταν της Boeing και αναφέρουν μόνο τον τύπο του (Β757-300). in.gr/2025/08/16/greece/fotia-…
Το αεροπλάνο απογειώθηκε με προορισμό το Ντίσελντορφ και μετά από λίγη ώρα έπιασε φωτιά ο ένας από τους δύο κινητήρες - Το αεροπλάνο προσγειώθηκε με ασφάλεια στο Μπρίντεζι της Ιταλίας
Μπορεί να είναι και τυχαίο αλλά δεν είναι απίθανο το τμήμα PR της Boeing να έχει βάλει το χεράκι του εξαιτίας των τεράστιων προβλημάτων ασφαλείας που έχουν παρουσιαστεί τα τελευταία χρόνια.
"How could you possibly see a #homeless #person and think anyone could deserve that, how could you possibly #advocate for a #system that allows and encourages that to happen. It's so fucking #evil"
💬 0 🔁 224 ❤️ 311 · How could you possibly see a homeless person and think anyone could deserve that, how could you possibly advocate for a system that allows and encourages that to happen. It's s…
Βέροια: Πενήντα κάτοικοι ζητούν να σταματήσει η πυρανίχνευση με drone στο Σέλι γιατί παραβιάζει τα προσωπικά τους δεδομένα
Και από κάτω στα σχόλια τους βρίζουν όλοι οι αποβλακωμένοι ηλίθιοι που έχουν αποδεχθεί την μαζική παρακολούθηση και δεν κατανοούν ότι ο Μητσοτάκης τους πουλάει πίπες. #ΔενΣαςΈχουνΓιαΗλίθιουςΕίστε
After some difficulties, we're continuing A Hat in Time Deathwish with possibly its final stream, this also marks my streamplace debut so come check that out too
When indie comic character Pepe the Frog becomes an unwitting icon of hate, his creator fights to bring Pepe back from the darkness. A Frankenstein-meets-Ali...
💬 0 🔁 1 ❤️ 1 · Tankies are not for the working class, they are red fascists responsible for atrocities against the working class, we need to unite as anarchists and abolish harmful hierarchies!
>extreme bloatware for what it actually does >nexus of many a drama regarding improper crediting of authors of each core they take from other projects >bloat >pushing "improvements" to forked code that either breaks parts of it, leading to normalfags (because frankly that's target audience) bothering upstream, or going against the project's mission and not bothering to change the name (mednafen's psx and ss emulation code) >programming socks >repulsive code >bloat
If you want a better approach to making emulators a shared object bundle, consider jollygood. They at least build off vanilla code and code is ISO C99 (ISO/IEC 9899:1999, POSIX.1-2001): jgemu.gitlab.io/
"And now, Alberta is becoming cruel. Not because Albertans are cruel, but because their empathy is being replaced by suspicion. The fastest way to turn compassion into contempt is to convince good people that their kindness is being exploited."
I think you might find value in this information on Stable Coins.If you could find the time,I would value your take on the show, how the Government might use the private/public sector Government partnership stable coin issuer's coins as the new bond market for debt relief?
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I find myself in the position of trying to convince a 75-year-old man who is generally receptive to evidence that ChatGPT is not reliably objective / correct medical information.
I invite links to articles on why ChatGPT is bad. Articles that are high-quality and accessible to those who aren’t super techy / online would be particularly appreciated.
Topics can include: - is not reliable fact - destroys the environment - enriches fascists - preys on the vulnerable - puts actual experts / workers / artists at risk, - anything else that is bad.
Suggestions for experts and hashtags are also invited.
Here’s an article I just shared, in the legal context, where the use of ChatGPT has been treated as potential contempt of court:
Don’t include fake cases in court submissions. Don’t miscite cases for wrong propositions of law. Don’t refer to cases in court if you haven’t read them. This is the most basic of lawyering stuff.
Are you still interested in sources? I have some on the environmental and cognitive side...
I'm also curious, is this person looking for information only on medical matters? There may be opportunity to empathize first with them, as to why are they preferring chatGPT (e.g. doctor's appointments are so short you can never ask anything, doctors look down on you if you ask things, medical research is complex and there is a lot of it, bodies are always up to something, etc).
Rolling Stone reports: "OpenAI did not immediately return a request for comment about ChatGPT apparently provoking religious or prophetic fervor in select users. "
A 60-year-old man spent three weeks being treated at a hospital after replacing table salt with sodium bromide following consultation with the popular artificial intelligence bot ChatGPT
I see the salt one was already posted; the airline one is also pretty informative not just for how the chatbot fucked up but also for how the company behind it tried to evade responsibility:
I apologize for not following your instructions exactly, but Ed Zitron is, I believe, one of the best critics of generative AI. He particularly looks at their economic numbers, in that they are spending 10 or more dollars for every 1 dollar they make: its a financial mirage, a scam. So even if it worked well; even if it wasn't environmentally disastrous; even if it wasn't built on stolen data (all criticisms he includes in his arguments), it still would be a financial scam: there is nothing remotely approaching a financially viable business product. I think this is a really smart tack, because of how resistant so many people are to criticisms from ethical/social perspectives. He has an easily findable blog. Unfortunately his writing is scattershot and inconsistent but he has some really really hard hitting lines and analogies. He is quite profane.
The link I'm sharing is a great podcast episode where he interviews the three academics who recently published an article arguing that ChatGPT should be accurately described as a bullshitting machine. It really takes apart the idea that this is anything remotely approaching intelligence. They do a great job giving examples of how poorly of a job it does writing essays. LLMs are good at summarizing, but the moment you ask it to write a pursuasive argument, it falls of the rails.
One of the best examples that I can think of is about how it is bad at chess. We've had 'AI' thats great at chess for decades. This is a pretty obvious takedown that there is no level of understanding going on behind the scenes. These models are analogous to a magician stacking the deck and performing a trick. The moment it has to 'think' for itself on a dataset that is outside of the precise training model, it inevitably fails. Literally, if I had been asked to make an LLM, the first functionality I would have ensured it have would be the ability to play chess competently, but GPT3.5 apparently didn't even remember where the pieces were. towardsdatascience.com/can-cha…
Here is a great article describing the magician's trick effect. No different than how waymo is having to have full time monitoring from remote technicians while selling you on an 'autonomous' car.
Here's a good summary from Cory Doctorow of some of Ed Zitrons latest financial analyses, in the context of how tech companies are attempting to falsely claim long term profitability by firing workers and replacing them with financially unsustainable 'agents' who cannot functionally do their jobs.
Evil AI is contagious, researchers found, as part of a joint research project between Truthful AI and the Anthropic Fellows program. The new study could upend AI safety.
Highlights the fact that you can't just ask an AI and then confirm the result with a quick web search, because many top web results include hallucinations.
Okay, your ask has compelled me to compile the links I've been bookmarking about this for a while, here's a semi-organized list, with some repeats of other replies. You're probably most interested in the "untrustworthy" section:
# Training & Scraping Harms - Datasets built on corporate piracy (porn edition, not that that's relevant): indieweb.social/@elgg/11493860… # Untrustworthy
For the posts in my "LLMs don't actually know anything" thread, I do my best to verify them. These are four that I'm pretty sure used to work but no longer do. That suggests to me that there's some poor team at Google whose job it is to keep track of when people are mocking their "AI" and suppress the bad results.
I think that is hilarious. I would love to know how many individual fixes they've accumulated like this. It reminds me of a competent secretary endlessly covering for an incompetent boss.
The Israeli army, today Friday, called on residents of the Zeitoun neighborhood in southeastern Gaza City to evacuate immediately, using leaflets dropped in the area.
I got away with a 380 MB /boot during upgrade, though that assumes you aren't dual booting another distro that also needs some room. Have you tried deleting old kernel versions?
But if you want to future-proof, the issue is that shrinking a partition from its "top" is not a supported function. For ease of explanation, suppose we want a 1.5 GB /boot partition:
This assumes your fstab file mounts by UUID (default in recent versions of Debian). If not, update /etc/fstab to match the new partition. It's been a while since I last did this, so definitely have your backup on hand and perhaps double check with other resources in case I left out any steps.
More precisely, shrinking relies on the presence of empty blocks. A filesystem usually fills from "top" to "bottom", so there would be no empty blocks to shave off the top of your nvme0n1p3, you can only shave off at the end. If you really don't want /boot at the end, you'll have to shrink nvme0n1p3, back it up, delete nvme0n1p3, expand /boot, re-create nvme0n1p3, and dd the backup back into its place.
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