I'm John Bachelor.

Bricks. Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa. Bricks. I welcome Sadrana Dume of the

Wall Street Journal editorial page at American Enterprise Institute, writing his column East

Disease, asking a question I didn't know to ask. India, where is it in the Gulf War, given India's completely dependent upon

liquefied natural gas and oil coming out of the Gulf, completely dependent. The Indian economy

doesn't work very long without it. It's received permission from those who were sanctioning

the shadow fleet and Russia,

it's received permission to continue to buy Russian oil when it can find it from the shadow fleet and liquefied natural gas in the Middle East.

That now is at risk because of the attacks on the Qatari gas field.

Sadan, a very good evening to you.

It did not occur to me to ask, where's India in this battle,

given how dependent it is on the Middle East. You tell me not only is India involved and have an

opinion, but it's president of the bricks right now. And India of the acronym that I spelled out,

India is the one country that has not condemned the United States

in Israel. Is that correct? Good evening to you. That's certainly correct. If you look at the

original members of Bricks, right, it's an acronym, Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa,

the other four countries have all condemned Bricks, have all condemned the U.S. and Israel.

India has not.

By contrast, India has condemned the Iranian attacks on Gulf countries.

But, John, if you look at the larger Bricks grouping, because it expanded in24 and 2025. So it includes other countries,

including the UAE, that have not condemned the U.S. and Israel. So I'm just talking about the

original grouping. Yes. Over there. The advertisement says BRICS. There are reasons for this,

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