In the Johannesburg summit, Argentina was also invited to join, as Argentina's former government had expressed an interest in making the country a BRICS member. However, Javier Milei, the new President of Argentina, had decided to withdraw the BRICS application. Milei's policies are more USA-centric.
The Western big powers like the US, Russia and the UK have also, when it came to the India-Canada standoff, chose not to take sides fearing diplomatic backlash from India