{"id":264790,"date":"2024-06-24T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T11:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=264790"},"modified":"2024-07-01T08:19:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T07:19:51","slug":"the-decline-of-the-west-the-g7-war-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/06\/the-decline-of-the-west-the-g7-war-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"The Decline of the West–The G7 \u201cWar Summit\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Image: European Union<\/p><\/div>\n

17 Jun 2024 – <\/em>The G7 Summit under the Italian presidency, organized by the Meloni Government in Puglia, proclaimed as its priority \u201cthe defence of the international system based on the force of law\u201d, declaring that \u201cthe Russian war of aggression on Ukraine has undermined its principles and has unleashed growing instability, visible in the various crisis hotspots.\u201d <\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This was declared by the G7, where six members (United States, Canada, Great Britain, France, Germany, and Italy) are NATO major powers that exploded the war in Ukraine against Russia, and Japan, NATO\u2019s major partner in East Asia against China, was added to. <\/span><\/p>\n

The idyllic staging with which this Summit was presented cannot hide the fact that it is a war summit. <\/span><\/p>\n

The United States signed a 10-year military pact with Ukraine, and the G7 granted a $50 billion loan to help it buy more weapons, a loan will be repaid using interest accrued on $300 billion in Russian assets mostly deposited in European banks and frozen. The defence ministers of the 6 G7 countries belonging to NATO have simultaneously decided to provide Ukraine with further significant military aid and to allocate 43 billion dollars a year to continue fuelling the war in the heart of Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the G7\u2019s sights, there is not only Russia but the entire BRICS organization, this year under the Russian presidency, which has expanded from 5 to 10 members and is further developing: there are over 30 countries that want to join it. Already today the gross domestic product of the BRICS exceeds that of the G7 and the forecasts for 2024-2029 indicate an economic growth of the BRICS, particularly China, of 44% compared to 21% of the G7. Not being able to prevent the development of the BRICS with economic instruments, the G7 tries to maintain its dominance with military instruments.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pope Francis was invited to the G7 in Puglia to give a semblance of peace to this war summit. <\/span><\/p>\n

Here Pope Francis met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, without saying a word about the fact that he is persecuting the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine, from which the Ukrainian church has carried out a schism, functional to the war against everything Russian.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Manlio Dinucci is a research associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization, a geographer, and geopolitical scientist. In the 1980s, he directed the magazine <\/em>Lotta per la Pace (born from “Appeal against the installation of nuclear missiles in Italy”) and was Executive Director for Italy of the <\/em>International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, <\/em>winner of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize. <\/b><\/em>His latest books are <\/span><\/em>L\u2019arte della guerra\/Annali della strategia USA\/NATO 1990-2016<\/span>, Zambon 2016; and <\/span><\/em>Guerra Nucleare Il Giorno Prima<\/span>, Zambon Editore; 2017<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 globalresearch.ca<\/span> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The idyllic staging with which this Summit was presented cannot hide the fact that it is a war summit. The USA signed a 10-year military pact with Ukraine, and the G7 granted a $50 billion loan to help it buy more weapons, a loan that will be repaid using interest accrued on $300 billion in Russian assets deposited in European banks and frozen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":264792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[1268,1397,2010,91,2571,1670,278,961,92,481,172],"class_list":["post-264790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-focus","tag-european-union","tag-g7","tag-italy","tag-nato","tag-official-lies-and-narratives","tag-pope-francis","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-violent-conflict","tag-warfare","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264793,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264790\/revisions\/264793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}