The G20 summit in Bali, Indonesia, on Friday failed to produce a joint statement as the group of the world’s leading economies and largest developing nations are divided on how to respond to the war in Ukraine.
Many G20 members have not followed the US-led sanctions campaign against Russia, including Indonesia, China, India, Brazil, and South Africa. The meeting opened with Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi calling for the G20 nations to work together to end the war.
Marsudi said that the war in Ukraine was the focus of most meetings held on Friday, but she couldn’t point to any agreements reached by all participants on the issue, according to The Associated Press. She noted that only “some countries expressed condemnation of the act of invasion.”
The G20 summit put Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in the same room for the first time since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24. The Biden administration has abandoned diplomacy with Russia altogether, and Blinken refused to engage with Lavrov in Indonesia.
“You know, it was not us who abandoned all contacts,” Lavrov told reporters at the summit. “It was the United States. That’s all I can say. And we are not running after anybody suggesting meetings. If they don’t want to talk, it’s their choice.” Blinken hasn’t spoken with Lavrov since February 15.
Blinken and other Western diplomats at the summit delivered harsh criticism of Russia for launching its war in Ukraine. Lavrov said that the Western envoy’s discussion “strayed almost immediately, as soon as they took the floor, to the frenzied criticism of the Russian Federation in connection with the situation in Ukraine.”
The G20 summit came after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson resigned on Thursday, prompting UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss to leave Bali. The summit was also shaken by the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was gunned down as the meetings were underway.
Unlike the East, the West is facing leadership crisis. One we haven’t seen since WW1.
The West isn’t just facing a leadership crisis, it also faces an economic and moral crisis of unprecedented proportion in addition to military defeat in Ukraine.
Most likely, the West will never recover.
Agreed. The “culture wars”, a deliberate strategy of neolib/neocon governance, have stripped America of any sense of identity beyond idiot consumerism, and radically debased its humanity, supplanting the nuclear family as the core of social institution with abortion.
There are no true leaders in the west… Otherwise they wouldn’t be in so much trouble…!
My music buddy says Blinken’s behavior is that of an alcoholic.
If I were one of the attendees, I would celebrate Liz Truss leaving the meeting. Bring out the champagne!
https://kingworldnews.com/alasdair-macleod-7-09-2022/
Interview with Alasdair Macleod.
The euro, yen, and pound are terminal. Perhaps within a week or two. The dollar soon to follow.
“It is very, very interesting. And looking at this (US dollar) breakout it tells me one thing and that is that we are heading into, and this is pretty immediate, a major currency crisis. If you are right and we are looking at this breakout maybe taking the US Dollar Index up to maybe 115-120, then the euro is toast, the yen is toast, sterling is toast. And these are the three other major currencies.”
“But I’ve also been looking at the changing of bank deposits in America, trying to get a handle on bank credit policy. What’s happened is the trend for increasing deposits has now turned down, which if you work through the bank balance sheets means that bank credit is contracting. And it is contracting at a faster rate than we saw back in 2008 following the Lehman crisis. So this is a very serious situation.”
As long as the US UK are involved in any peace talks regards Ukraine will be doomed to fail because simply they don`t want a peace agreement with Putin , they want Putin to surrender , the only one who can bring the war to a end is Zelensky but being a US puppet he is a lame duck leader.
Z has another problem. If he negotiates an end to the war, he will be strung up on a lamp post by his Azov battalion buddies.
“The[G20] meeting opened with Indonesian Foreign Minister…Marsudi calling for the G20 nations to work together to end the war.”
“But you know I’m not talking to him!” shrilled U.S. Secretary of State Blinken, before – according to girlfriends – dashing headlong from the assembly hall to his quarters, hurling himself on his bed, and crying himself to sleep.
Did he leave his glass shoe?
The G20 group is not exactly representative of the whole world (as do most international orginizations, the G20 over representatives white, European or European derived, Christian nations, and underepresents non white, non European or European derived, and non Christian nations) and yet, even here, the USA could not get anything near agreement for its war and sanctions against Russia. That’s the real story here. Russia doesn’t need anything from the G20. The USA does. And got nothing. Not even a token agreement in the form of a bland, “joint communique.” Not even a group photo.
It is not merely that there was a “failure to reach a consensus,” but that the USA’s demands for a consensus were denied. The whole diplomatic point is that Russia maintains that there is no “consensus,” but, rather, that only the USA and its lapdog allies and clients take the view that Russia is to blame for the war in the Ukraine. Most of the world simply doesn’t buy that. And that shows not merely in the USA’s failure at the meeting, but in the fact that most of the world has not chosen to join the USA and its lackeys in their sanction regimes, much less in sending military aid to the Ukraine.
Lavrov being treated like a rock star at the G20 last week. World‘s Diplomats wanting to see him.
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The Americans and the Zelensky people could not be more cynical than they are annihilating the Ukrainian people and their country for no other purpose than to wear down and destroy Russia and Putin. And when there is nothing left of the Ukraine they will do the same to their NATO so called allies and then move on to war with China. Former Sec. o. State Pompeo recently gave a speech in the
Hudson Institute about the USA and and geopolitics, one would think with the approval of the state Department. President Biden continues the Bush neocon PNAC DOCTRINE. There will no diplomatic approach to end the war in Ukraine. These people are as brutal as any Nazi could be, and yes they jumped in bed with the Ukrainian NAZIS the first chance they got.
https://ussanews.com/2022/07/03/mike-pompeos-revealing-hudson-institute-speech/
The Russian Special Forces destroyed the tactical group “Belarus”, once part of the neo-Nazi “Right Sector”. Denazification was a stated aim of the SMO. Also two members of the Ukrainian Azov neo-Nazi regiment were sentenced to death in the Donetsk People’s Republic on July 9th.
The neo-Nazi organisations which were merged into the Ukrainian armed forces form the basis of the anti-retreat forces.
The UK has confirmed the start of a new program to train ten thousand Ukrainian soldiers on its soil. UK of course has trained the Azov, Right Sector, and a million other flavours of neo-Nazi paramilitaries. Russians now understand that they are at war with the UK/US and NATO.
This is the exact same strategy that the UK/US and NATO used in the Middle East. They funded armed and trained Terrorist insurgencies to overthrow the elected representatives.
Won’t work in Ukraine. First, the CIA and Ukrainian nationalists tried it after WWII – lost 200,000 Ukrainians against 20,000 Russian casualties (same 10-to-1 losses they’re suffering now.) Second, training 10,000 troops over four months while losing 20-30,000 troops a month is more than a net loss – it’s a disaster for Ukraine.
FUCK JOE BIDEN!
I gave one up vote for your “f3ck……..”, and one for this one, but if I could I’d give two ^ for this one.
F3ck Joe Biden!
https://www.rt.com/russia/558497-european-industry-future-deficit/
I doubt Germans fully appreciate how their own Klaus Schwab is linked to mass depopulation and that he fully supports their energy dilemma.
Empire on decline and Ukraine is collateral damages.
It’s newer being about invasion of Ukraine,it’s decline of warmonger Americans ignorant public and Media conditioned to support or else,to fight the Russians.
It’s not even ” Communist and Capitalism” Russia along with China become capitalist without democracy after Communist system collapsed 1990ties,than it’s clear that about declining of American Empire.
We can see war mongering Media and Public incessantly supporting murdering Ukrainians.
Any doubt about nuclear annihilation!
It’s rethorical question.
The Ukraine war was definitely planned by NATO for many years, probably more than ten. This is no secret as NATO´s top dog Jens Stoltenberg openly admitted.
The NATO alliance began training the Ukrainian military in 2014, averaging 10,000 trained troops annually over the next eight years regardless of who occupied the White House”. In December 2017, the Trump administration, together with other NATO states, began sending ‘defensive’ weapons to Ukraine, while Kiev took a major role in military exercises held on the Russian border.
Goal No.1 = sanctions + asset theft, Goal No.2 = military win in the Ukraine, Goal No.3 = Balkanise Russia