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Western Leaders Don’t Even Know What Hit Them—Escalate To Shape a New Paradigm

G20 Summit India 2023

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EIR LEAD EDITORIAL FOR TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Sept. 11, 2023 (EIRNS)—The news of the last few days is the utter failure of representatives of Western governments to reach an agreement at India’s G20 summit to condemn “Russian aggression” and thereby bolster confidence in their supposed “rules-based order.” This is just the latest in the ongoing process of beginning to come to grips with the 10,000-pound elephant called reality standing in the middle of the room. It was revealed by India’s G20 Sherpa that over 200 hours of negotiations went into the final Declaration, and 15 drafts, yet still, the West deemed the final text a major disappointment.

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Glazyev Notes the Shift to Trade in National Currencies Has Been ‘Staggeringly Quick’

Russian economist Sergey Glaziev

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Sept. 6, 2023 (EIRNS)—In a lengthy Sept. 4 interview with the Sevastopol news portal ForPost, the prominent Russian economist Sergey Glazyev noted that “the transition to national currencies was forced to happen staggeringly quickly,” in response to the dollar being used as a weapon of hybrid warfare against Russia and other countries of the Global Majority. This is a positive development, Glazyev noted, but “in itself, the transition to settlements in national currencies is only a small element of economic security.”

“The new world economic order,” he continued, “will be based on the unification of countries around a common criterion for the growth of people’s well-being, and in international cooperation—around mutual benefit, which is achieved through a synergistic effect, a combination of competitive advantages.”

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