What good is the G20 if it can’t even oppose Russia’s invasion of Ukraine?

The division seen at the G20 further embeds the growing international fault lines posing a deepening risk to efforts to co-ordinate trade, security, and diplomatic relations among nations.

Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly sits alongside her Chinese, America, Brazilian, and German counterparts at the G20 foreign ministers' meeting in Bali, Indonesia on July 8. The relatively young G20 was designed to bring together leading wealthy and developing nations to tackle world problems, but it has instead laid bare the acceptance in some capitals of Putin’s bloodletting, writes Les Whittington. Photograph by Ron Przysucha courtesy of Flickr/the U.S. Department of State

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

July 20, 2022

OTTAWA—No doubt there are millions of people who, like me, wake up every morning thinking: the Russians are actually conducting a war of outright, unprovoked aggression against a neighbouring country—murdering Ukrainians for no reason, with massive artillery strikes and missiles and tank warfare...

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