"An opportunistic alliance motivated by desperation" is the best way to describe socialist countries allying with BRICS. It would be much better to have a modern-day Cominterm, but there isn't one. BRICS is the best that socialist countries have at the moment at combating US imperialism, their main threat, and my hope is that overtime, as more and more countries become socialist, a true international socialist alliance can be created and render alliances like BRICS obsolete.