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The G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro was marked by many negotiations, and very difficult negotiations at that. The Brazilian government considered the final declaration to be a victory for its diplomacy, as it maintained the essence of the main ideas that have been promoted by the President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, such as the need for dialogue instead of war, the fight against social inequality and climate sustainability.

In fact, the final declaration can even be considered a victory for Brazilian diplomacy. Some even claim that it was a diplomatic victory for the entire “Global South”, particularly because the BRICS negotiators resisted Western attempts to impose an even aggressive language against Russia.

Brazil also innovated during its presidency by launching the G20 Social and establishing a Global Alliance against Hunger. These initiatives can be directly attributed to President Lula, as they bear his mark, that of a social reformer.

However, reality must be dealt with. And it is cruel to those who dream of reforming the institutions of global governance. I have no hope whatsoever that any commitment made by the G20 members will come to fruition. The fierce negotiations themselves demonstrate the unwillingness of some of its members to put these policies into practice.

And I am not just talking about Javier Milei, who has proven himself to be a ventriloquist’s dummy for Donald Trump. Reports in the press indicate that the rich countries have also tried to reduce their responsibility in contributing to the fight against climate change. As Lula has already indicated several times, this responsibility weighs most heavily on them, since they have historically been the ones who have exploited nature the most. However, having already benefited from interventions in nature to industrialize and develop their economy and society, they are now trying to prevent others from doing the same, using climate blackmail.

Recently, Russia’s Vladimir Putin stated that, when the old G8 was still in operation, the G7 countries (the capitalist powers) always met beforehand, behind closed doors, to discuss what their joint policy towards Russia, the other country in that group, would be. In practice, therefore, there was no real discussion or negotiation on equal terms within the G8, but rather a plot by one part of the bloc against the other.

Only the naive could think that the G20 is any different. The information about the negotiations that was released by the press corroborates this suspicion. The composition of the group and the international situation further strengthen this point of view. The G20, therefore, has the thankless task of balancing the interests of the so-called emerging nations (from BRICS, the African Union, etc.) with those of the rich nations, which is ultimately impossible, especially in a scenario of international polarization between these two categories of countries.

This polarization affects all of the work of the G20, since the interests of these two categories of countries have become increasingly contradictory, if not antagonistic. And this trend is likely to continue, since the geopolitical polarization between rich and poor nations is irreversible. Therefore, the G20 negotiations will become more difficult and, certainly, useless. It is quite possible that it will soon cease to exist, just like the infamous G8.

Even the aspects that could be considered positive – the Brazilian and Global South victories – are nothing more than mere deceptions. The Global Alliance Against Hunger, for example, has as partners institutions closely linked to the American Deep State, the most rotten and fetid sector of the obscure imperialist system of the United States (such as the Rockefeller and Gates foundations). The G20 Social, in turn, is a sham front of social movements that serves as a facade to pretend that the population has some participation in the decisions. The “civil society” represented in the G20 Social is none other than George Soros and the CIA, through the Open Society and the Ford Foundation.

Thus, the G20 forums, such as its summit meeting, serve more as a platform for transmitting Lula’s, Xi’s and Ramaphosa’s ideas and demands for a less unequal world than as a platform for intervening in reality. Even this platform has proven counterproductive, given the neoliberal atrocities propagated by Milei.

The G20 is a bankrupt organization with no future. It is a demonstration of the impossibility of reforming global governance from within the institutions of this governance, as some leaders dream of. It is not possible to reform them. They need to be replaced by others with completely different models, outside the dictatorial control of half a dozen nations that use them to impose their designs and subdue the others.