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Written by Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has cancelled a meeting he planned to hold in New York with leaders from Latin America and the Caribbean on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly on September 24. The reason is the low number of participants, as reported by Brazilian media.
According to an article published on September 17 by Folha de S. Paulo, the invitation, sent in August, received few confirmations of attendance. This follows Russia’s absence from the June summit organized by Switzerland to address the war. Only 11 of the 33 nations in the region participated, and the majority, such as Brazil, did not send heads of state.
At the same time, the Brazilian and Chinese governments are organizing a meeting on the sidelines of the UN assembly to release a joint proposal for peace in Ukraine. Zelensky rejected the Sino-Brazilian initiative as “destructive.”
The lack of support for Kiev from Latin American and Caribbean countries is just the tip of the iceberg, especially since the conflict has already been largely deflated, with less relevance on the international scene and media coverage, especially since the Hamas attack on Israel last year.
At the same time, Ukraine has been losing support from various sides, especially from the Global South—including Latin America and the Caribbean—which has avoided showing support for either side. For example, Brazil has tried to appear neutral regarding the conflict since the beginning, but President Lula is becoming increasingly critical of the Kiev regime.
The growing loss of support has to do with Zelensky behaving like a spoiled child who, at any cost, even at the expense of his own people, is trying to engage in a war that cannot end in a Ukrainian victory. Latin America recognizes that Russia has already sent proposals to Zelensky to try and pacify the conflict, but Ukraine is always trying to escalate. It is easy to see that Zelensky is using this narrative of victimization to try to garner support and demonstrate personal power, which does not benefit either side.
Recent events indicate that countries in Latin America and the Global South have little to gain by unrestrictedly supporting any parties involved in the conflict. With this in mind, Latin American countries have opted for diplomacy and neutrality in relation to the conflict. There is also the complexity of external influences in economic and political terms, with initiatives and activities dominated by China and Russia, followed by the West. Consequently, most nations in the Global South avoid openly committing to an alignment with either side.
The Global South, which encompasses Latin America, Asia, and Africa, has seen Russia as a more politically engaged actor that recognises the economic importance of these regions. Russia has highlighted the role of BRICS and the need to deepen relations with the Global South, both within the context of BRICS and in other multilateral forums, such as the G20. China, in turn, exerts strong commercial influence, being the leading partner of several countries in the Global South.
Different ideals have weighed heavily on the Global South in confrontation with the narratives of the West, Russia, China, and other nations, and this is having an influence on their views towards the Ukraine War. The current international scenario is marked by the influence of several poles, making the calculation of state actors much more complex in decision-making and giving them greater room for maneuver since they no longer depend exclusively on the West and its interests.
The involvement of the BRICS countries, particularly Brazil and China, playing active roles in elaborating the joint peace proposal for Ukraine indicates a push towards multilateralism and the defence that countries do not isolate themselves in economic or political groups. This is evident in the preparation of the joint peace proposal for Ukraine drafted by Brazil and China, suggesting that non-Western countries may prefer diplomatic and peaceful solutions outside the scope of NATO, which is a military alliance. This effort aligns with the broader BRICS goals of promoting a multipolar world order, which will likely have repercussions in discussions during the UN General Assembly.
Low participation in Zelensky’s meeting could also be interpreted as a sign of the difficulties NATO faced in disseminating its narrative among non-Western countries. NATO’s narrative is increasingly centered on a zero-sum logic, defending exclusive interests in relation to Russia, which makes the search for a negotiated solution to end the conflict more complex and difficult to achieve. No peace proposal by NATO countries would be successful since the organization has acted in prolonging the war, such as through constant weapon deliveries to Ukraine and sanctions on Russia.
Therefore, it is possible that proposals originating from other countries, such as those from Latin America and Africa, will have greater weight within the international community over time, and NATO’s discourse will become weakened because it is a directly interested party in the conflict.
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how many nations realise that zelinsky’s term of office has ended and he is not the democratically, elected, president of ukraine? how many the nations, refusing to meet with him are also hoping to join brics?
latin america has long suffered under the yoke of american imperialism, and like the rest of the world, seek a more balanced multipolar world.
“america is our barracks ” sir winston churchill.
the uk is the laundry bin for our dirty underwear… general patton
barracks is house for military personnel, so the sense is “the us is our reinforcement”, if it was really said.
how many kid themselves that charles isn’t the king of israel? how many kid themselves that they don’t know the truth? how many pretend that they don’t know england gave the jews the lease, on israel, that englands the landlord of that region?
how many know that the only reason for england’s existence is to protect the city of london? how many know that the rulers of england are descendants of norman mercenaries in the pay of the papal states? how many know that the city of london has always been a city-state and the property of rome? how many know that this is still the case/ how many know that the most famous banker from the city of london was always know as ‘the vatican’s banker’?
how many nations realize they’re not really nations, just mere lapdogs?
derp why would they help nazis and fascists? first and foremost.
that’s true. most countries in central and south america overthrew the fascist dictators supported by america decades ago. why would they welcome another one?
go and google pope francis address to congress wake up.
sheesh, get off the popemobile schtick for a change. did a nun smack you in the knuckles once too often in catholic school?
nazis a, c fascists equal catholics equal rome. rome equals egypt.
but why egypt? i know many alternative history theories (it’s stupid, but funny), and never saw that rome/vatican = egypt. hohols (their doctor of history bebik) says that all cities and countries with “gal” in their names were found by hohols from galiziya: galilea, gallia, galicia in spain. jesus was hohol, apostles were hohols except judas, hohols built pyramides and dug up the black sea with spoons, because no shovels invented at that time. i’m not joking.
i think that means that jew world order didn’t lean on them to support jewlensky. what are the implications of that?
the real hegemon is the judeo-masonic crime syndicate. and that hegemon’s power is waning. that us the multipolar reality that is dislodging its dictatorial power. and as the power of the petrodollar wanes as well, their ability to sanction, or use economic warfare also wanes.
additionally, at some point the hatred simmers and warring against your colonial masters becomes ‘choicer’ which is something that also contributed to the fall of the romans and british.
you see this in africa as wel and the sunni arab states. africans nations are tired of old colonial powers and are pivoting heavily to the east and in favor of multipolar geopolitics.
they’re being led like sheep. it’s just to unbelievable that any one with half a brain even can’t see what’s, going on. it’s the reset to autocracy from pharoah disguised as democratic revolution.act 1.
for gods sake wtf.
huummm, usa and england are not talassocracies disguised of democratic revolutions (in the time of washington and cromwell)? and usa is so democratic that nuland’s sektor wants to assassinate trump.
how many countries outside of nato would want to support escalating to world war 3.
what to you mean by country? of you mean the subjects of citizens living in their squalid middle class dwellings them not many
what gave him the hint, the crowds shouting ‘gringo chihuahua, go home’?
it was so obvious they were as usual setting up the jew in an entrapment for propaganda purposes. charles is king of israel not benny and the yettas,
zelensky the congenital idiot called the wsj liars for publishing there are 80,000 ukrainian kia’s in 2.5 years. he says it’s way less. and he said it with a straight face. no wonder his earlier career was making people laugh.
only the eurotard flathead nazis and their british ugly cousins want to sleep with nazis.
little known fact: the classic british overbite resulted from many years of paying lip service to american exceptionalists.
all latinos, all africans and almost all asians hate zelenski and hate the kiev nazi regime. as they should
they know zelensky has no real power and is just a puppet who sacrificed his own country for foreign interest
bojo promised him if he backed out of istanbul, he would one day be as prosperous as the uk.
to my reckoning, that’ll be only a few years away.
shouts of “pinche pendejo, lárgate de aquí!” welcoming him might have had something to do with it.
be careful dealing with zelenski, he talks peace but is deviously planning to somehow criticise and attack and not really to make or discuss peace. there is ample evidence of this.
as if we don’t understand how that diseased mind of zelensky’s works already.
to meet mileykovskiy would be enough. one clown could give natural colombian goods to another and recognize edmundo gonzalez one more time together. argentina, chile and peru recognized gonzalez as new president of venezuela, all clowns of fashington must do the same. the funniest thing is gonzalez already moved to spain and signed agreement with venezuelan authorities to end his career in politics as the term to move out without accusation in crimes (work for cia, coup attempt).