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.

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    2 days ago

    If Putin has something on Trump then more power to him. So does Mamdani, apparently. What’s the problem?

    I’ve seen your “right side” of history. No thanks.

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      Ukraine being run by the alt-right is a meme, Ukraine was being run by alt-right nationalists shortly after the revolution.

      Then they lost the second election when Zelenskyj got to power. Zelenskyj speaks Russian (or at least spoke), and your claim is he’s an Ukrainian nationalist? Cmon mate, no ones that stupid.

      Zelenskyj was the peace offering, Putin was still full of greed and went forth with the full-scale invasion. Putin however is an imperialistic nationalist wanting all power to belong to him, he’s everything you claim to hate. Yet you’re gobbling his propaganda.

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        Bullshit.

        A coup is a coup is a coup is a coup. Maidan was no more a revolution than if Jan6 had succeeded.

        Zelensky campaigned and won on the promise of peace through the Minsk Agreement. He said that America was trying to weaken Russia at the expense of Ukrainians.

        Then he watched helplessly as the Azov Brigade refused his orders to stop shelling civilians in the Donetsk City Center, precipitating the annexation by Russia.

        Zelensky is now just a kapo stooge who will never outlive his usefulness to his Banderite handlers.

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          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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            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.

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            All true. But more likely Mamdani has the keys to NYC’s receipts on Trump’s corruption, just like he had receipts on the WTC cancer coverup.

            FDR blackmailed then millionaires after their Businessmen Coup attempt so as to get his New Deal legislation passed. 👍

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            Thanks, Professor of Nazis Apologia 101.🤓☠️👍

            …something… something… doomed to repeat History Channel?

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                Wagner Group doesn’t even exist anymore. Dude tried to coup Putin with a truck load of NATO cash and got shot out of the sky. 👍

                Every Russian opposition figure you settle on turns out to be Nazis, from Pussy Riot to Navalny to “Russian Volunteer Corps”.

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                  You mean like Rusich and the Russian imperial legion?

                  It must be embarrassing being you. Pussy Riot aren’t even Nazis. I challenge you to find a source that isn’t Russia propaganda that says so.

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                    Bro. They post swastikas. You can say what you about freedom of speech and whether they should be prosecuted for it, but Pussy Riots are Nazis.

                    Yes, the Russian Imperial Legion are fascists. Fuck yeah, they are.

                    They’re the opposition to Putin, not his supporters.

                    Your Western liberals’ golden child Navalny marches in their rallies. He called Muslims “vermin and cockroaches”. He’s a Nazi.

                    You’re only proving my points. Thanks.👍