Marco Rubio pulls plug on traditional photo op at meeting of foreign ministers after about one-third of countries threaten boycott

The traditional “family photo” to open the G20 foreign ministers’ meeting has been abruptly cancelled in the US after a host of nations – including Australia and the UK – refused to appear beside the Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov.

The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, pulled the plug after several European officials, the UK and Australia made it known they would boycott or walk out of the snapshot that often kicks off such international gatherings.

Rubio still opened the talks in Atlanta with an appeal for unity on the issues that threaten international security and trade.

  • BlaestEgnen@feddit.dk
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    16 hours ago

    Maidan was not a coup, it was a popular uprising. It was a mix of all political directions which stood against corruption.

    Globally there’s a tendency for alt-right groups to be better organised, often through football ultras. Which is why they tend to get power after q popular uprising, while defaced/leaderless leftist groups tends to be run over in the following power vacuums.

    You could definitely argue Jair Bolsonaro got to power due to primarily leftist run protests. You could argue occupy wall street was the prelude for Trump and let’s not get started on the countries follow the Arab Spring. All of these are correlated. All of them sees right wing or authoritarian figures win the immediately following power struggle

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      13 hours ago

      Bullshit. The CIA assisted Arab monarchies and dictatorships just like it assisted Banderites in Ukraine.

      A coup is a coup a coup is a coup. The coup was led by Svoboda, a fascist party that would, could never win an election.

      Popularity is determined by something called elections, not fascist mobs.