The US has rejected a Canadian proposal to establish a task force that would tackle Russia’s so-called “shadow fleet” of oil tankers, according to reports last night.
Canada, which has the current Group of Seven presidency, proposed the measure ahead of a meeting of G7 foreign ministers in Quebec later this week.
In negotiations to agree a joint statement on maritime issues, the US is pushing to strengthen language about China while watering down wording on Russia, the reports said.
create a new coalition of G6 let US stay in G7 alone.
This reminds me of 2014 when it stopped being the G8.
Fuck yeah. Pop some bottles in the ice
The G7 has been compromised. EU had best work without the US now. The US is now led by a maniac who likes Putin, and wouldn’t blink at betraying all the US longterm allies.
The US is led by Putin.
With a South African court jester dancing around to distract attention
A showman TV show actor Krasnov Trump and a S.African nazi court jester Elon… what could go wrong.
The US is led by Peter Thiel. Putin is there for convenience.
The G7 has been compromised.
Unfortunately, that’s probably true for the whole world order.
I want to hope that the new one will be better, but oftentimes history tends to disagree with that notion. Yet I’ll remain fighting for a better tomorrow.
Unfortunately, that’s probably true for the whole world order.
That’s fortunately for us here down in the global South. Let the oppressors (which Europe also is to be clear) fight each other and leave us alone. Sucks for Ukraine though.
This is why veto shouldn’t be a thing.
America
Correct. Nice to see headlines reflecting the complicity of the nation.
Fuck you, fix your country before we all die.
Fuck you.
If you’re waiting on Americans to storm the capital, then you’re going to have to wait until a Democrat wins the presidency again.
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There’s no guarantee the constitution will last long enough for there to be another election. Why are you all waiting for something that may not come?
You act like it’s an America problem and not a billionaire problem. Where do you live that you think the same billionaires don’t own you too?
We need to transcend nations before we all die and a handful of oligarchs have power forever.
You are right, but as citizens in nations, we can only demand solutions at the national level. Right now in that regard the problems are with the oligarchs in Russia and the oligarchs in the US, and they have control each of their respective countries. We are very well aware that there are rich assholes willing to play to Putin’s tune in many of our countries and that they are financing opposition parties considerably.
We keep limiting ourselves to just citizens in nations, we’re going to keep repeating the same patterns nations repeat. Genocide still happens, war still happens, and the collective problem of climate change looms large. No one nation, not even America, is a match for the power these corporations have. We have no newspapers, free press is close to dead, and we’re uneducated. Anyone pinning their hopes on America figuring anything out doesn’t know how misinformed we are. If we can’t come together now, when we’re finally all connected, with the ability to instantly translate each other’s words, is it crazy to think we can do a little better?
oligarchs in Russia and the oligarchs in the US, and they have control each of their respective countries
When oligarchs in russia behave like Musk, they soon fall out of the window.
Putin is the biggest oligarch in Russia.
Did you mis the part about how it is a single >>NATION<< that veto’d the shadow oil fleet ban? So obviously a nation is the problem here, and of course the billionaires who have taken control of that nation.
It’s just a mask at this point. As soon as all the public services are privatized, along with military, and elections can be bought, what is a government at that point? Where is the distinction if they’re all paid off by the same people? At this point it’s become a sport for the ultra-wealthy to just buy countries like a sports team. Trump is even wheeling and dealing to buy other countries, this is how shallow the meaning of nation has become. America: sponsored by Musk and Thiel.
Lmao Don’t act like people from the US didn’t vote for exactly this. This is an America problem. Through and through. FAFO
Americans absolutely did not vote for this! You call an election where one man can pay out a quarter billion - legally - a fair election? Do you think 90% of Russians vote for Putin too? We’re cooked and getting more cooked. Point and laugh and act like this isn’t bad news for the world.
Voted for it twice. C’mon now. This has been a long time coming. Trump-phenomenon didn’t happen overnight or in this last election.
And I’m not pointing or laughing. I didn’t learn English because it’s fun, I dreamed about living the American dream. I believed in the US. I grew up on GI Joe. It’s sad actually. I remember when the USSR was the enemy and now y’alls UN vote is aligned. The US soft power has plummeted.
So can we dump the USA from the g7? Make it g6
He needs to be impeached and the shitheads he’s put in removed.
Traitor.
God fucking damn that rapist traitor and all the shitheads that put him there.
Make it a G6. Problem solved. Russia isn’t in the G7 so it shouldn’t have a vote or veto in the first place. Not directly nor by proxy.
Please kick us out of the G7! Turn off our power. Tariff everything. Make us hurt - that is the only way we will get rid of trump. Once social security goes away people will finally realize what is happening
On one hand yeah fuck the US we could do with being knocked down a bunch of pegs. On the other I worry desperate people are easy to control. It would create a very strong “us vs the world” vibe that fascists love to take advantage of.
Just make it a European operation and that’s it.
I mean apart from the logic of sanctions, those shadowfleet boats are “environmental disaster” ticking timebombs. They are not very safe or seaworthy.
Some of them have extreme strange huge anchors, which tend to drag 100 km across the oceanfloor and mysterously break critical communication cables in Europe and so. Others have dubious highend technical devices on board.
Nice detail is that somehow they end up being owned by a Hong Kong Ltd.
They’re basically modern privateers - acting on behest of their leader nations, but with public deniability. Every once in a while I wonder what it would take for a Nemo-type character to show up, commandeer a submarine, and start stalking/hunting them.
Just kick them out already, america can get fucked
Why don’t they just move ahead with the plan regardless of America? The US has made it pretty clear they intend to depart NATO, and so the rest of the organization may as well just move forward regardless of what the US says.
The US position here is “We are rethinking our position here, and thus can’t get involved in any new business,” which to me is fair. Regardless of how anyone feels about their decision to leave, if they’re deciding to leave, it makes sense to not start something that will keep them involved.
Why don’t they just move ahead with the plan regardless of America?
It’s in the article. G7 is about consensus. Doesn’t mean other parties won’t have their own plans.
