By Derimot-Knut Lindtner-June 20, 2025

Old, failed industrial powers and former colonial powers continue to meet, long after they have lost their relevance. Trump's early departure from the G7 meeting in Canada to deal with more important matters could just as easily be interpreted as a farewell to the entire G7 institution – a format that has outlived its usefulness.

The world's largest industrial nations today are China, the United States, India and Russia. Countries like Indonesia and Vietnam are on the rise and will soon overtake the old European colonial powers.

When Medvedev refers to the G7 leaders as “zombies,” it is because he sees them as the living dead – bearers of a death cult. The fact that Trump, who is trying to save the American empire from the same decay that has afflicted the rest of the G7, does not even find it worth the trouble to attend is effectively a last farewell to a drunken group of leaders of countries in disintegration.

The world's vital development is now happening elsewhere than in the G7 countries. When the EU's own "emperor", Ursula von der Leyen, chooses to stop all gas imports from Russia – a deliberate form of self-harm that in a medical context would lead to hospitalization, sometimes forcibly – it shows that she is in reality running a madhouse. She is the captain of a ship of fools.

The time of the G7 is over. Everyone who follows can see it. Everyone – except our own leaders and media. Reality is hard to take in for the West now. Our media ensures that we can sleep – and dream sweetly. For as long as it lasts.

Knut Lindtner
Editor

G7 is a "dead club" – Medvedev

The G7 summits appeared like a collection of "zombies" already ten years ago, says the former Russian president.

By RT

The G7 has long since lost its relevance and is incapable of providing satisfactory answers to today's challenges, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has said. He also praised US President Donald Trump's performance at the group's last summit in Canada and his decision to leave the meeting early.

“Well done!” Medvedev wrote in a post on X on Tuesday, referring to the US president’s performance at the meeting. Trump “punished” the European members of the group “for kicking Russia out, refusing to discuss sanctions, and walking away,” he wrote.

During the meeting, Trump stated that it was a mistake to remove Russia from the group, which at the time was called the G8, and claimed that Russia's presence could have helped prevent the Ukraine conflict.

"You spend so much time talking about Russia, and [Russian President Vladimir Putin] isn't even at the table anymore," Trump told the meeting attendees, arguing that this only "makes life more complicated."

The US president left the event early, despite having a scheduled meeting with Ukraine's Vladimir Zelensky, to address the escalation between Israel and Iran, according to the White House. Trump was also skeptical of the EU and UK's calls for more sanctions on Russia.

"Sanctions cost us a lot of money," he said, adding that he would like the EU to "take the lead" on it.

Medvedev, who is currently the deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, stated that it "has long been clear that [the G7] is a dead club." The former president recalled attending the G8 summits between 2008 and 2012, and said that the other participants "were already zombies."

Trump has repeatedly said that he would like to "put Russia back in the group."

The Kremlin said in February that the G7 has “lost its relevance” as it no longer reflects today’s global economic dynamics. The G20 is a more representative format, including fast-growing economies such as China, India and Brazil, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said at the time, describing it as a group that “reflects the world’s economic locomotives.”

The G7, which dates back to the 1970s, consists of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United States and the United Kingdom. Russia was a member of the group from 1998 to 2014. The G20 includes 19 of the world's largest economies, as well as the European Union and the African Union. It was established in 1999 but did not begin meeting annually until a decade later.

https://www.rt.com/russia/619545-g7-dead-club-medvedev

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