May 09, 2021 by Prabir Purkayastha
G7 are a bunch of western countries—the US, UK, France, Germany, Japan, Italy and Canada—who believe that they have the “civilizational” mandate to tell the world how it should be run.
The Foreign Ministers of G7 countries met in London this week and issued a communique painting Russia as a “malicious actor” and China as a “bully”. It had little substance apart from ticking all the “right” boxes in its anti-China and anti-Russia campaign: Uyghurs, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Crimea, Ukraine, etc. It ended with arrogating to itself the mantle of being the “rules-based international order”, distinct from what the real, lawful international order is, the United Nations and its Security Council.
This is why India’s willingness to be a part of “invitees”, to wait in the antechamber with Australia, South Korea and South Africa, while the imperial powers of the G7 decide on the weighty matters of the world, is mystifying. Self-respect would have demanded that if you do not get a seat at the table, do not go, and not wait outside the meeting room. India’s presence gives G7 a semblance of legitimacy. Why should the worldview of ex-colonial and settler-colonial powers be important for us or the world? Why should we recognize the right of the UK to speak on human rights with its record of colonial brutalities – from Mau Mau to Bengal famine? The 1943 Bengal killed an estimated 3 million people in 1943, with UK’s hero Churchill complaining that it had not killed enough as the “Indians bred too much.”
To India’s embarrassment, two members of the delegation tested Covid-19 positive, leading to the entire delegation, including the External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, having to self-isolate themselves and away from the meeting.
Who are the G7 and what is their mandate to speak on sundry subjects? G7 are a bunch of western countries—the US, UK, France, Germany, Japan, Italy and Canada—who believe that they have the “civilizational” mandate to tell the world how it should be run. The EU participates as a permanent guest, through the President of the Commission, and the President of the Council. Shorn of verbiage, the G7 represents countries that are all members of NATO. It was created in the 70s, ostensibly as a gathering of 5 industrially advanced economies, and later expanded to 7. During the Yeltsin years, it included Russia, which was subsequently expelled in 2014. The G7 then reverted to its original role as the political face of NATO. Or as The Spectator said in August 2019, “Simply by its make-up, the G7 is beginning to look like a doomed effort to preserve the hegemony of white power.”
has threatened even its ally Germany with sanctions on the undersea pipeline Nord Stream 2. The US is using the G7 to draw the EU countries in its battle against Russia. The US belief that Russia will continue to crumble, as it was doing in the kleptocratic Yeltsin years, has been belied. The Russian state has consolidated itself, both economically and militarily, and has even projected its power in Syria. It helped the Assad government to survive a three-pronged attack—of al Qaeda-Islamic State, Turkey and Israel—backed by the NATO countries.
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Via https://peoplesdispatch.org/2021/05/09/g7-or-failed-colonial-powers-telling-the-world-what-to-do/
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‘Peoples Dispatch’, I was interested in finding out, who they are and found this information: https://peoplesdispatch.org/who-we-are/
They say: “. . .Peoples Dispatch also seeks to bring to you breaking news from a perspective widely different from that of the mainstream media.. . .”
“. . . the real, lawful international order is, the United Nations and its Security Council.”
Well, is it?
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That’s odd, Aunty, when I go to that link, this is what I see:
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I’m not seeing the last phrase you mention
“. . . the real, lawful international order is, the United Nations and its Security Council.”
For some reason you seem to be getting a different screen than I am!
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I must weigh in on this article, because I basically agree with it, except that Japan isn’t a Western power. I would agree that Japan has been kissing up to the US since the US nuked Japan twice in World War II. In fact, the US is the only country in the world that has used nuclear weapons in war, so why are we so paranoid about other countries having them? I guess if you’re busy creating enemies, it helps to swallow them, if you can, as the got mythical god Saturn swallowed his children.
The line about the United Nations being the “real, lawful international order” is, I believe author Prabir Purkayastha’s opinion, as cited in the article. I happen to disagree with that opinion, knowing what I know about the United Nations and its inception, a step-child of the ill-fated League of Nations that US President Woodrow Wilson wanted so badly. The UN is certainly not representative of the individuals who populate this planet.
Essentially, though, I believe the author is right regarding the hubris of the G-7 nations. Europe has been fighting and in-breeding ever since people developed the means to kill and rape. One of Julius Caesar’s most valuable plunders were the slaves from his conquered territories. The US and Canada are notable for having wiped out the natives through war and imported diseases, like smallpox.
So who are we to moralize about how other nations should behave? One thing we do have in abundance is nerve.
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Very well put, Katherine. I agree totally. All in the service of exploiting other nations for their resources and their labor.
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