The recent meetings of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP30) and the G20 Summit were held on November 10-21 in Belém, Brazil, and on November 22-23 in Johannesburg, South Africa, respectively. Both of them collectively constituted, in a number of aspects, a single significant event in the rapidly unfolding process of reshaping the world order.
The United States Was Absent from Both Events
The very emergence of these issues can by no means be reduced to the personal characteristics of the current American president. As far back as the mid-1980s, what started manifesting itself quite explicitly in the United States were the negative signs of an effect long known as “imperial overstretch.” This, by the way, was a key reason for the Plaza Accord (expert-level discussions marked its recent 40th anniversary). In the author’s view, Japan and West Germany, two rapidly developing nations at the time, realised the perspective of the impending economic collapse of the leader of the countries group to which they belonged (and do still belong so far), which substantially motivated the signing of the agreement. Urgent measures were required to prevent the death of the “goose that lays the golden eggs,” including for those two main post-war “economic tigers.”
Meanwhile, the international “deep state,” per se, which the 47th President of the United States likely and apparently perceives more intuitively than clearly, is attempting to use one of its main “host countries” for purposes, unrelated to the problems of its population. Or, for that matter, to the population of all other “Western” countries, who in recent years has been forced to live under the conditions of an utterly moronic and inhumane “new normality.” It is being imposed outside any democratic framework and through the use of the abracadabra meme of “positive discrimination.” In Europe, for example, this “new normality” is patronised by the radically anti-European agents of this very “deep state,” currently at the levers of power.
The “deep state,” among other things, generates various global scams, including the Ukrainian project, juvenile justice, “gender diversity,” Covid-19 with its political and economic aspects, as well as the erasure of the fundamental line between humans and the animal kingdom. This last point, by the way, explains the frequent and peculiar situation when the number of criminal cases for the “illegal” shooting of stray dogs can exceed the number of cases related to people harmed by them.
Throughout the whole history of humanity, it has never had a greater enemy than the “deep state.” One of its scams pertains to certain aspects of the generalized “Climate Problem.” This is exactly how President D. Trump publicly assesses it. This was the reason for his decision to withdraw the US from all international organisations and platforms that focus on the issue. For COP30, it is simply the core issue, while for the recent G20 Summit, it came into focus due to its linkage with the problem of poverty, which is the core issue for that particular platform. The aforementioned problem is prevalent amidst the majority of the “Global South,” a rather amorphous international construct that is nevertheless moving into the focus of world processes and, in particular, the latest G20 Summit.
Again, from the author’s perspective, it is precisely Trump’s assessment of the “Climate Problem” mentioned above that determined the absence of the US at the events in both Belém and Johannesburg. Although the outward pretexts for this decision were the lengthy prison sentence given to former Brazilian President J. Bolsonaro and the alleged persecution of white Afrikaners in South Africa.
To conclude this section, it seems appropriate to make a few remarks. The first concerns that very generalised “Climate Problem,” or rather, its “certain aspects.” Neither its existence nor the extremely serious potential repercussions of ignoring it should be neglected. A year ago, the problem was already discussed on the pages of the NEO in connection with the COP29 held then in Baku. Here, we will only note that we are dealing with one of the manifestations of selfish parasitism on real human problems.
Another, and significantly “older,” manifestation is the encouragement and subsequent exploitation of drug addiction for selfish purposes. Meanwhile, more or less serious efforts to combat various aspects of the latter often take their toll on the initiators and end badly for them. As happened, for example, with former Philippine President R. Duterte.
On a related note, it is quite possible to assume that the main motive for the “Events of 9/11,” which served as a pretext for involving the US in the Afghan adventure, was the sharply intensified drug production in Afghanistan, which increased by an order of magnitude during the occupation of the country. And in terms of D. Trump currently paying particular attention to “Chinese fentanyl precursors” and Venezuela as an alleged significant supplier of cocaine drugs, a quite adequate retort comes from Beijing: “You are looking for the radix of the problem in the wrong place, Mr. President.”
But it is not only the aforementioned “incident” with the former Philippine president that proves that the “deep state,” profiting from human suffering, in the fight for its survival, will go to great lengths, being literally unstoppable. Those very “Events of 9/11,” as well as the demonstrative, public execution of one of the extremely important leaders of the MAGA movement, the founder of which was once D. Trump himself, also serve as evidence for this.
On the Problems of the Modern World Order and Russia’s Place in It
It seems it had been assumed in advance that the recent COP30 and G20 meetings would form a kind of unified performance, linking the “Climate Problem” in its specific interpretation with the problem of poverty. The COP30 sessions focused on the notorious “decarbonisation” and the consequent abandonment of fossil fuels. However, to the disappointment of the supporters of the “Climate Problem” in its specific interpretation, countries producing the said fuel predictably opposed radical wording in the final document.
As far as the outcomes of the G20 Summit are concerned, at this event, the leadership of some “Global South” countries undertook another attempt to use the same climate issues as a suitable tool for the “financial skinning” of economically developed countries. Since it is they who are considered primarily responsible for its very emergence. Although such assistance should be provided not because these countries turned out to be the main “emitters” of the notorious “greenhouse gases.” Not only does the “Global South” face poverty as a problem, but the modern world order as a whole does. In particular, one of its consequences is the flow of migrants to those very “prosperous countries.” This, by the way, is also used by the “deep state” for its own purposes.
Finally, for all the participants in the current stage of the “Great World Game,” including Russia, the problem of elementary survival is acquiring paramount importance. Meanwhile, one often hears absurd fantasies on the topic of “Russia’s leadership in a beautiful future world.” The situation in Russia’s public space is exacerbated by the emergence (or were they created?) of two teams engaged in an uncompromising struggle between themselves. Thank God, for now, it is just a verbal war.
They depict directly opposing images of a “once-lost,” but in fact never-existent, “Golden Age.” One is in the form of “Holy Rus,” highly dubious even from a purely theological standpoint; the second one is associated with the USSR, where “almost everything was almost free.” In terms of the latter, it will suffice to refer to the generalised “price” paid by the country for having preserved its existence in the terrible 20th century. And it is not just the Second World War that took the entire “price.”
It is significant to deal with current problems, without relying too heavily on permanently deceptive historical analogies in a bid to find solutions. Some of these problems were merely touched upon and outlined at the recent scheduled international events in Brazil and South Africa. Which, by the way, is already a significant achievement per se.
Vladimir Terekhov, Expert on Asia-Pacific Issues
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