Allow me to lib out for a second here and make two linked observations here:
1 - The last "legal" war started by the US was in 1942, meaning that's the last time a sitting US president had Congress approval for a formal declaration of war. Everything else since then has been illegal, not that it matters in the slightly.
2 - Despite point 1, the US still has veto power at the UN Security Council, meaning that they can unilaterally decide to go into just about any conflict, bring any of its allies and cronies into the fray, and shield themselves and their accomplices from any kind of UN sanction over illegal military actions. A country which has launched countless illegal wars in the past seventy years gets to pick who gets reprimanded by the managers of the global "rules-based order".
I know this is not new to anyone here, of course, but I just wanted to take this lib moment to truly appreciate how deeply fucked up all of this truly is. The world is the US's playground, and until the day comes in which a brutal reckoning is visited upon the US and its allies, there can be no semblance of security at a global geopolitical level.
If the Great Satan looks at you and decides you're gonna get got, then you're on your own. Therefore, and I want to believe my lib moment ends here, the first order of business for BRICS going forward is that, if you don't have any nukes yet... it's time to get them.
Iran, harden your heart and bleed your Khyber crystals.