The next G7 summit should be held in outer space

The next G7 summit should be held in outer space

By: Rachel Marsden

PARIS — The globalist leaders of the G7 group of industrialized nations are fresh off a meeting in the south of Italy. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said that the location sends a signal to the global south that the G7 isn’t a fortress and that it’s totally open. Oh, please. They aren’t even open to their own voters.

The G7 is an exclusive Western-led club that comprises the US, UK, Canada, France, Germany, and Italy. Japan is the only non-Western outlier, and G7 does it the honor of making Japanese (pronounced “yapanese” in this case) the official language of these summits. So what were they all there to “yap” about? Mostly Ukraine. Because apparently they have no other problems at home, to which their plunging popularity attests. They talked about how to get Russia to pay for both sides of the Ukraine conflict by using the interest on Russian assets held in the West as a “loan” to Kyiv. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky showed up dressed like he came to mow the lawn. So maybe try loaning a lawnmower first and see if you get it back?

They also addressed bad weather (aka climate change) and the latest conflict in the Middle East – two more issues they’ve plundered the taxpayers for decades now under the pretext of pretending to resolve.

European Council President Charles Michel and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen – the de facto unelected Queen of Europe and commander in chief of the EU’s royal bureaucratic brigade of desk jockeys – aren’t at the head of any sovereign nation, but showed up anyway. Nothing says democracy like blatantly unelected globalists.

Other than Meloni herself, whose party is fresh off major electoral gains in the recent European parliamentary elections as the so-called “far-right”, it was a gathering of duds who constantly use the term “far-right” to marginalize views that don’t jibe with those of their increasingly unpopular establishment.

As for the rest of the current G7 class, there’s Biden, who oozes so much competence that every outing has Americans holding their breath in the same way that people do at a NASCAR race in anticipation of a crash. Will he succeed in navigating the stairs without incident? Will he find an invisible chair in which to sit down? Will he use a joint press conference to sneak a nap? Will he manage to pull off a victory against an opponent just convicted of 34 felonies and racking them up like badges of honor like he’s going for some kind of high-score? Biden used the summit to sign a security agreement with Ukraine, set to last only as long as Biden is president – which may not be too much longer. It also doesn’t commit American troops to defending Ukraine or anything like that. It just commits the Biden administration, for as long as it lasts, to work with Congress to find cash to sustainably support Ukraine – er, or rather the American military industrial complex that benefits from taxpayer funding being transferred to American weapons manufacturing “for Ukraine”.

Then there’s Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, still surfing that wave of a whopping 25 percent party popularity (behind the Conservatives at 43 percent) according to current national polls.

Trudeau has kicked back in podcasts twice since March to whine about his job. He’s the first prime minister in Canadian history to invoke de facto martial law, typically reserved for acts of terrorism or war, against a bunch of honking truckers and their supporters fed up with authoritarian Covid mandates – and ordering the blocking of their bank accounts. Trudeau is also fresh off denouncing the democratic choice of Europeans in voting for anti-establishment parties in the EU parliamentary elections. “We have seen, around the world, a rise of populist right-wing forces in just about every democracy,” Trudeau said, expressing his concern while conveniently ignoring his and his fellow Western leaders’ own authoritarianism in the form of tone deafness to voters’ concerns.

Canada just announced that it rummaged through its closets and found some decommissioned (that’s fancy talk for “dusty”) rockets that it’s now sending to Ukraine. They just happen to be made in Canada, so perhaps they’ll just have to make more of them at taxpayers’ expense. Guess Russia blowing up the old junk in Ukraine is probably easier than taking it down to the local recycling depot.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, whose establishment mouthpiece routine makes his tenure utterly unremarkable and the damage done completely conventional, recently called an election and looks like he’s in trouble.

French President Emmanuel Macron lost massively to Marine Le Pen’s anti-establishment National Rally party by double the vote in the EU elections. In a total tantrum that smacks of narcissistic injury, he called a snap national election for the end of June in a double or nothing bet that he could very well end up losing if current trends hold through two rounds of voting.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s party also came in third in the EU vote behind the anti-establishment right in its worst ever showing, and now faces opposition pressure to prove any shred of remaining democratic legitimacy. And Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kushida has also bottomed out in the ratings and faces a tough upcoming leadership contest in a few months.

All these guys are so disconnected from the realities of their own citizens that it would really be more apropos for them to meet in orbit next time. Perhaps Giorgia Meloni and her new pal, SpaceX founder Elon Musk, could arrange the ride.