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the the hello, i'm manila, chad. you're tuned into modus operandi today will x for one of the world's most exclusive clubs. they exist, but not officially. there are strict rules to enjoy, but their founding was based on an outdated model of the world. so their membership is actually shrinking. today will be discussing the g 7. who are they? what do they do? and why do they still exist? all right, let's get into the m o the

they get together for an annual meeting and jointly decide who they will impose financial pain and pressure on the group of 7, better known simply as the g 7. after joining, you must meet certain domestic economic criteria. put plainly, you gotta be rich, your country, that is your g d p has to be one that can inflict pain on others. if you take this financial path or another. next you have to be so called a democratic society. your mode of governing has to, in effect be in line with how western countries define democracy. now i understand that definition has constantly moving goal posts, but regardless, you have to be considered a democracy to the last major tenant to join the g. 7 block is this. you have to be

an industrialized capitalist society. your country's economic philosophy must be based on capitalism. good or bad? i'm not making that distinction for you, but the g 7 requires your country's economic model. be a capitalistic one. the members today consist of these countries, the united states, canada, the u. k. germany, france, italy, and japan. as recently as 2014, the g 7 was actually the g 8. the group kicked out russia after crimea voted to secede from ukraine and joined the russian federation. russia was a member from 1997 to 2014. so to talk more about what this existing group does, how they wield their power and so forth, will bring in veteran journalist, host of the international show going under ground action or times the action 1st.

let's review the latest g 7, summit 2023, which took place in at ocean by japan. and they were the chair of this year summit . so unsurprisingly, the meeting revolved around in the pacific issues. more specifically, the role of china in the region. the groups communicate has now been released and it reads, in part like this, quote, a building on our resolve in l. now to increase vigilance and enhance our cooperation to address risk that undermined global security and stability. we will enhance collaboration by launching the coordination platform on economic coersion to increase our collective assessments preparedness deterrence and response to economic coersion and further promote cooperation with partners beyond the g 7. we will deepen our strategic dialogue against malicious practices,

to protect global supply chains from illegitimate influence espionage elicit knowledge leakage and sabotage in the digital spear, we're firm our shared responsibility and determination to coordinate on preventing the cutting edge technologies we develop from being used to further military capabilities to threaten international peace and security. why that was a mouthful. okay. action. it doesn't take a genius to read between the lines here. they are referring to china, implying that china has engaged in what they would call economic co workers and of sorts. but isn't that precisely what the g 7 themselves do? i mean, look no further than the g. 7 price caps on russian crude. it's absurd, isn't that i mean, altogether, when the whole idea of the g 7 is containment of other countries,

progress and development. i mean, the fact that it was only the other day, a g 7 for administer anthony blinking was inside of your a be a desperately trying to order around. mom had been settlement to too much failure because uh, we heard that very shortly afterwards he was on the phone, letting me boots in and know that boil price is what talked about. so the oil price cap is but $1.00 attempt to buy the g 7 to control of the countries to control the modes of development to control the democracies and g 7, uh for the 7 just read nature. the idea. it was a russian of all places where that's the only atomic bombs to kill so many thousands of people. hundreds of thousands of people when japan, it already surrendered in world war 2. in any case, the idea that the v 7 should meet in the russian where it was, was telling the attempt to try and show power around the world because

it failed. so what's the relevance of the g 7 today? i mean, they have a g 20, doesn't the existence of the latter supplant? the former or you know, is the smaller grouping this exclusive grouping? it's better because it's so exclusive. it is an exclusive club, the g 7. because if you think about it, they have a disproportionate amount of blood on their hands. a given to the g, 7 nations comprise those that are committed to such medi him or around the world. tens of millions killed, wounded or displaced from was enough canis johnny rock libya, syria, and, and so on and attempts it goes all around the world. yeah, the g. 20 is 3. 50 is of the will population. and who did everyone come running to of to lehman brothers went bust to the 20th a price is not the g $7.00 because it was the crime was committed for which

settlement advocate settlements were made. were in g 7 countries. but it was a g join. the meeting that really came to the forward to try and desperately save the from the predatory capitalism that includes worldwide recession and slump. so absolutely, i think the, the, it's clear that the g 20 is more representative and i should just say a british engineer walks fans of the g $70.00 is the global south, 13 trillion dollars in development in climate assistance. so actually the g 7 wouldn't be the g 7 is that they did use. well, the g 7 do is a daily us for deaf debt from the 4th countries in the world. the rate of $232000000000.00 a day in a refigured debt, but saving to call the trillions they owed for what they've done to the developing world countries. they wouldn't be g 7. they wouldn't be the 7 most powerful economic countries in the world. they'd be debt to even more designations than they

are now. a. yeah, excellent point on the financial crisis of 2008. so this so called exclusive g 7 club, they invited ukraine to attend their summit this year. ukraine is not a member state, nor does it meet the economic bar for accession, not before the military operation and certainly not after. i mean, does this country even pass muster as an economic driver in the world? why was born, where zalinski invited to attend this year? oh, usually zalinski is a products of langley virginia and the military industrial complex in the united states. so perhaps you did have the right to be at the g 7, and he is emblematic and what the g 7 are infamous for. for most of humanity that is staffed and sanctions fast and sanctions. because obviously we know that they freeze people's money and threatened to give it to the landscape. that's what they

have been saying. they've frozen russian. let me g 7 countries have stolen money from venezuela. and of course, it's the g 7 countries that a sanctioning desperately sanctioning economies trading with russia, with venezuela, with i mean, how many sanctions does the do g 7 countries have against other countries in the world trying to target that population so that the children go and go to school and get textbooks and use jewel use graphite pencils and the like. so is it lensky arguably should be there? the sympathizes clearly with his forces on the ground, i like to neo nazis in ukraine and so therefore he is the most g 7 values and the fift and mud and sanctions. the v 7 is known for coming up next david rockefeller's legacy. think tank the council on foreign relations has made some interesting comments about the g 7 block. as of late,

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welcome back to the hmo. i'm vanilla chance there's a prominent think take here in the us called the council on foreign relations, but dates back to 19 to it was founded by david rockefeller, grandson of the american oligarch, or sometimes described as robert baron john d. rockefeller. now david was an unofficial adviser to every us president from eisenhower to nixon and is said to have influenced a great deal of how the world is organized today. so his csr think tank carries great weight when they issue commentary action red tons, the host of going underground is back with us. thank you for sticking around action . so according to the council on foreign relations of all places, they recently put the aggregate g d p of this block at roughly 44 percent of the

global economy and nominal terms. that's actually down from 70 percent just 30 years ago. the trend is not going in the blocks favor. if we put the g 7 toe to toe against emerging bricks, nations who emerges victorious. the clearly of even the council on foreign relations, which is just a spoke sync tag, even may recognize the g 7 rule as a percentage of the global gdp is folding. it really must be fully. and if g 7 nations like germany, a roll rating and recession, the proportion of global gdp is clearly desperately following because it's rising in other countries like russia and china and the brakes countries. and i think on pvp relative pricing. what is it? the bricks? nations have overtaken the g 7 in any case. so yeah, increasing of the g 7 is shown to be what it is. it's not even the can only powerhouse of the of it is known for at home in the g. 7 nations for growing and

a quality slow and a slowing, life expectancy, in some cases in the largest prison. you know, if you look at the united states imprisoning a capital more than an hour, scotland, you go to see the g 7 countries is going completely the other direction that the rest of the world is going on, which is clearly why. anyway, breaks is something that everyone wants to join, isn't it? yeah. see how far death spiral predictions isn't. that's something. ah, so let's talk about the groups, identity crisis. now they were formed in 1975, we're talking back then they were called the g 6. it was the us, france, italy, japan, u. k. and then back in west germany, the alliance was actually formed to address recession sparked by the growing strength of opec to counter opac. now, economic concerns were the primary purpose. but before long,

cold war politics crept in. it would appear, we have come full circle action after russia was kicked out of the block in 2014 and they joined back in $98.00. so which is it? is this group, and economic block or a political one? it's an interesting question where the blocks of political or economic that would block in terms of geopolitics comes through ingram. she and he always said that was political in the 1st place. so even though the shooting i cooperation organization might say, oh, we don't political brick. so it's not political multiple, our, it is no political of course it is. and the g 7 is absolutely political because of g 7 nations each. so each of when it comes to the mass, it was in iraq, afghanistan, and syria, and so forth. and the wars against anything different, any different economic model, that's what defines the g 7,

not just the declining the economic power of their declining g. d. p is a proportion of global gdp. it is the political cloud in trying to overthrow democratically elected leaders all around the global south in latin america in africa and south east asia in the caribbean. that's what defines the g 7. it's ability to covertly hiding from their own popular g 7 populations. the i, we're all so deliberately sabotaging any kind of democratic values of the global so . so they benefit those g 7 elite any it's within the g 7 countries because obviously the people who move g 7 countries a suffering terribly from, from what's going on. so it's a political grouping, like many others, but the kind of politics it, practices a. well, i mean, what's the politics you get some people might say late capitalism as a complement to what too many in the global south suffering today,

see is g 7. so i'm calling record of mass killing, torture and the creation of mass and equality in countries around the world. right? i mean that's at this point. money seems inextricable from politics, doesn't it? so it may come as a surprise to many of the viewers, but the g 7 is technically an informal grouping. there is no permanent secretary at no charter, no purpose that is set in stone. for example, nato has a charter, a rules of the road and a destination if you will. but the g 7 has none of these. now i'm struggling to understand why it exists and healthy out here. yeah, it's funny you same nature as a charter and ruler the road because nature means north atlantic treaty organization. and last time i looked at a map of ghana, some sit on the the these countries aren't near the atlantic. what is the nato

peacekeeping force in cost? of a for a sort of in the atlantic ocean, is it. but any, any days if the g 7 doesn't even have it shot, you doesn't even have any kind of rules whatsoever. then why not just fold it into nato. as the rest of the world sees nato as his belligerent grouping. and in any case, that's what nature represents. in terms of uh, um, funding and, and the like. so just follow the g 7 in tomato because you can only clean the declining geopolitically the declining what they have is that military might and then usually a weapons. so yeah, i think the folding g 7 is an age, it wouldn't be a bad idea. and then we can just get on and realize that the g 20 and who knows even the united nations, despite the, the, what i'm doing, you get you air is as done as regards the war and the centre of europe as the united states fights russia through ukraine, despite when people think of entering your gutierrez, maybe we can revive something of what the principles of the life of nations were.

obviously, we know from edward snowden that to the american intelligence. so it was a bug senior, un personnel for the past as a way for full the g 7. it's an a to revive the un look at the g 20 and the u. n. is the future. when of course, what we know as a reality is it is going to be breaks. it is going to be a multiple, the world devoid of the sanctions on the attempts and all bill being a no blame. but the economies of the global south that that was the g 7 actually do try and make people suffer. yeah. rest in peace. she said, yeah, well there is talk of japan joining nato as well. and last i checked, japan was still in the pacific. and now one of the rules of membership or accession into g 7 is that your economy has to be capitalistic. but given china

is obvious, economic gains under a communist government. the last 40 plus years and, and by many various measures, has become the number one economy in the world. when it behooves the g 7 to revise its rules to joining this unofficial club. but even if they did, do you think china would even care to join? isaac, china would want to join the g 7 would have given that it's not even answering jo biden's phone calls about any kind of symmetry. every time the state department spokesman of his daily press going, which is us, when are you gonna have that meeting with the chinese? what does that spite balloon story destroy relations publicly between the united states and the world's largest creator of goods in the world, superpower in terms of tackling in the quality and obviously, the world's economic superpower in a few years time. why would it want to join the g 's of it?

i don't think it possibly would want to join the g 7 and the new countries, brazil with blue luna probably would. but china joining the g 7. i don't think it particularly would one to it would necessarily join, i suppose, just because of those gdp numbers. but as you say, they define something cool. capitalism as part of the requirements. whenever capitalism is given, the amount of government subsidy to bailout the banks and to what you 8 was, i mean that was pretty state just was like alright, action to so to summarize, the g 7 is on official. there is no charter or secretary at their goals, vacillate between economic prosperity and political pressure. their joint economic strength has vastly diminished over the last 30 years. yet last year's summit in germany focused on russia this year on china. could we make the argument that this

unofficial block has had the unintended consequences pushing these 2 superpowers together, which would actually, i guess defeat the purpose of existence. i mean, of course, if it had one, the nicest thing one can ever say about the g 7 is united, the world against the g 7 countries. i go back to this estimate by the british and g o l sound because the idea that these g 7 countries owe the rest of the world. so a teen trillion dollars by their estimations. given what they've done and taken from the rest of the world, shows that at the core and the root of what the g 7 is, it is too big is believe that the so called mainstream media is sitting over for the most grading is john is wonder out going, yeah, these are the 7 most important because these are the 7 most economically important powers that are talking about

a rule based order that govern the world. why did they even both so as you say, the nicest deputy office. yeah. as you mentioned actually would be, they've united the world against the g 7, the g 20 countries. most of them are a very suspicious of g 7 countries. that motives and their attempts ads trying to benefit those g 7 countries, elites of the expensive, the rest of the world action returns a veteran journalist and host of the show going underground. thank you so much for your time today. thank you manila. all right, that's going to do it for this episode of modus operandi the show that digs deep into foreign policy and current affairs. i'm your host manila chan. thank you so much for tuning in and we'll see you again next time to figure out the m. o. 2 a,

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