these are like, since all legitimate, and that's absolutely fair and is currently on the law so low is enables are the doesn't ask you to remain in pilot and definitely without conducting a license. never last us lawmakers oven. isn't you going to abide by read good democratic processes? someone's this is in washington. i've said that preventing they think thomas is integrity, the boss us support. so keep as that goes live through radio as i'm but it will come on days that steve, gil, he's in the us, the, by the way, the presence of over to your ad. we have another interesting topic to talk about, hey, we have as soon as he's saying that he should be given millions of dollars because he's showing me sort of cash if he's gonna hold a presidential election. well, so, initials the on this just for the things, the lensky can't make more outrages, demands on us tax payers. he goes for 5000000000 to fund their elections and he's right, he's not begging. he's trying to extort money out of the us with them to hold that

election. we're being told in the us and in western europe. this is about defending democracy in ukraine. is the guy who's gone after the russian orthodox church, who shut down his opposition, political parties, who set down the media and now is not holding elections unless american taxpayers pay for it. the answer should be allowed and decisive. no, and we shouldn't send them another time. yeah, they, you know, during this incident as the interview, we want to obviously we times they did a lot of it in the entities and then seals are noted that you quinn is ready to wage war for decades like is, well, let's take a quick listen. if you would mind, hold on israel has been fighting for a very long time. we're ready to wage war for a long time too. if we don't lose our manpower, it can be like this. if we minimize casualties, like in the case of israel, we can live like this, this, sorry, hey, we, we, i mean, did this thing you obviously believe that you claims will agree to the present on this? i will, he will, they will,

they won the war to last forever on the special national versions of, i say, i don't think even ukrainians or western europeans or american certainly american taxpayers want this to go on indefinitely. and here's a big difference between ukraine and israel. mr. zalinski, israel has one time and time and time again. you haven't won a battle yet. and they, to those hope, it doesn't last moment. how can you create the claim to be a democracy ones and lensky holes the electoral process? hostage to additional for an aide. you know, i've recently, i've, i've talked with friends in western europe who provide a lot of for an aide to india and they're concerned about providing for an aide to india when they're landing rocket ships on the moon. why do you need for an aide when you've got a space program? i think the same questions are being asked about ukraine. why are we funding the retirement accounts of your pensioners? why are we were funding your governments where we funding your war? why are we funding mansions for your top executives in miami and then in the other

locales around the world? this guy is extorting money from the us on every level. and the only thing i can say about their democracy is it, it bears a great resemblance to the democracy. we have under a joe biden, who is webinar using our department of justice at our prosecutors, and obviously taking bribes from ukraine in order to give you frame what they want . i'm not sure that the brain democracies any much different than ours under president by 6. yeah, so it's, it's, it's not interesting what also uh my, my final question ready before we move out of time. but, but we've heard about the corruption scandals. a new claim was guarantees. all that, let's say the us agreed to, you know, help uh, ukraine goods with a democratic election. well guarantees, all the fees that money for the elections and not nicely says buy another madison and you know, southern spade or something. well, we don't have any guarantees, in fact,

we don't even know where the money we've already said has gone. and unfortunately, it's not just ukraine that's blocking that sort of transparency and accountability . we've got those in the us that like lindsay graham that he quoted, that are sending money over there without demanding any accountability. we don't know where all the weapons are going. we don't know where the money is going, and there's no guarantee that the selection wouldn't be fair and free, even if they hold it with $5000000000.00 of american assistance. this was the most corrupt country in the world. before the last, he took office since lensky took office, and there is no indication that the thing is, is changed. i think you had to take out about 12 or 15 of his top advisers for bribery interruption not long ago. it seems like everybody there was was to make committing corruption and bribery except zalinski and they got removed and he's still there. yeah. about it as a save i believe. yeah, we're going to be seeing you again soon. i know looking forward for that. thank you . so much for joining me here on i see you today was a pleasure to loop 2 things again. thank you. my friend. well that i was of this is

our modus operandi is up next until the about is the g 7 still as strong as it used to be checked by that? well, we'll be back in just on the 25 minutes 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 for 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 underground action with tons 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, the 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 spirit. we are 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. then 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, of the 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 after when he was on the phone, letting me boots in and know that boyle price is what talked about. so the oil price cap is but $1.00 attempt by the g 7 to control of the countries to control the modes of development to control the democracies and g 7 for g 7, just read nature. the idea of it was 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 g 7 should meet in the russian where it was, was a 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 it committed to such a made him all 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. 5th of the will population. and who did everyone come running to of

to lehman brothers went bust to the 20th a crisis, not the g 7 because it was the crime was committed for which settlement advocate settlements who made were in g 7 countries. but it was a g 20 meeting that really came to the forward to try and desperately say the from the predatory capitalism that includes worldwide recession and slum so absolutely, i mean 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, the team trillion dollars in development and 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 poor 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. 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, you really 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 seem zalinski. that's what they have been saying. they froze and russian, let me g 7 countries of stolen money from venezuela. and of course, it's the g 7 countries at a sanctioning desperately sanctioning economies trading with russia with venezuela, with i mean, how many sanctions does the g 7 countries have against other countries in the world trying to target that population so that the children gone good to school and get textbooks and use jewel use graphite pencils and the like. so zalinski arguably should be there. the supervisors clearly with his forces on the ground, i like to neo nazis in ukraine. and so therefore he is the name of 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. we'll discuss it when we return with action returns. the said type the m o will be right back the, the russian states. never d as tight as one of the most sense community best most i'll send send up the in the 65 to 5 must be the one else calls question about this, even though we will then in the european union, the kremlin mission, the state on the russians cruising and split the ortiz vote next. even our video agency, roughly all the band on youtube tv services. for what question did you say to

stephen twist, which is the american voters are rarely interested in the world policy during election cycles. but a said the issue between maybe the exception this time around, particularly among t o p voters, much of the republican base us our w brain policy. they see it is by the acceptance. and i'm here to plan with you whatever you do. do not watch my new show . seriously. why watch something that's so different. little opinions that he won't get anywhere else. welcome to please or do the have the state department to see i a

weapons bankers, multi 1000000000 dollar corporations. choose your fax for you. go ahead. i changed and whatever you do, don't my show state main street because i'm probably going to make you uncomfortable. my show is called stretching time, but again, it's not. we don't want to watch it because it might just change the way inside the welcome back to the hmo. i'm manila chance there's a prominent think take here in the us called the council on foreign relations. that dates back to 1921. 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 c, f, r,

a think tank carries great weight when they issue commentary action red tons, the host i'm 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. 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 are already 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 economic powerhouse of the of it is known for at home in the g. 7 nations for growing and a quality slower, and you're selling life expectancy in some cases in the largest prison. now 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, bricks is something that everyone wants to join, isn't it? yeah, see how far dest spiral predictions isn't that something? so let's talk about the groups,

identity crisis. now they were formed in 1975, we're talking, they 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 opec. 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 gdp is a proportion of global gd, be. 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, the most g 7 countries a suffering terribly from, from what's going on. so it's a political grouping, like many of those, but the kind of politics of practices a, well, i mean, what's the politics i get some people might say like capitalism as a complement to what too many in the global south suffering today see is g 7. so of calling record of mass killing, torture and the creation of mass and equality in countries around the world. right? i mean, at this point, money seems inextricable from politics, doesn't it? so it may come as a surprise to many 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 as a nature as a charger and rules of the road because nature means north atlantic treaty organization. and last time i looked at a map of gather some, sit on the the, these countries on near the atlantic. what is the nature of peacekeeping force in cost of a, for a sort on the atlantic ocean? is it? but any, any days? if the g $7.00 doesn't even have a charge to, doesn't even have any guy in the rules whatsoever, then why not just fold it into nato? as the rest of the world sees nato has this belligerent grouping, and in any case, that's what nature represents. in terms of uh, alms funding and the like, so just follow the g 7 intern angel because you can only clean their declining geopolitically the declining what they have is that military might and then usually

a weapons. so yeah, i think uh, 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 what the engineer get you air is as done as regards the war in the center of europe as the united states fights russia, 3 ukraine, despite when people think vent when you get there is maybe we can revive something of what the principles of the life of nations. what obviously we know from edward snowden, that to the american intelligence. so it was a bug senior, un personnel, but perhaps as a way for it. for 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 brakes. it is going to be a multi pull the world devoid of the sanctions on me attempts and all bill being a no blink. but the economies of the global south that that was the g 7 actually do

try and make people sofa. yeah, the rest in peace. she said, yeah, well there is talk of japan and 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 though it's ringo biden's phone calls about any kind of symmetry. but every time the state

departments works was that his daily press conferences is us. when are you gonna have that meeting with the chinese? what does that spite balloon story destroy relations approximately between the united states and the world's largest creator of goods in the world? a superpower in terms of attack, lighting in the quality and obviously the world's economic superpower in a few years time. why would it want to join the days of it? i don't think it possibly would want to join the g 7 and the new countries. brazil would literally 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 20 o 8 was, i mean that was pretty state just was like, alright actually and 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 n g o elk, sam, because the idea that these g 7 countries, oh, 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 sent over for this most creating is drive, is one to route 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 deputies office. yeah. as you mentioned actually would be, they've united the world against the g 7, the g 20 countries, most of them a very suspicious of g 7 countries, that motives and their attempts ads trying to benefit those g 7 countries, elites at the expense of 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 the the, [000:00:00;00]

the the, let's also is this uh for all of those buttons on the piece of both of those, the intervention in any yeah. above the head. cool. well let me, i'm a voice though, and a full month colonial pound. i don't see the point for the french and best offer from students here the same and our country understand that friends, survival is at stake. but since we don't want them, they have to leave the coupon summer tires on the buses over to move harassing phone calls and nothing is printed new to waste into the pacific time though. so