Posted on 02/19/2025 9:05:48 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will skip a two-day meeting of foreign ministers from the leading rich and developing nations that starts on Thursday after criticizing host South Africa’s policies as anti-American.
Analysts say Rubio’s absence reflects the Trump administration’s indifference to organizations promoting international cooperation, but Rubio has also directly rejected South Africa’s priorities for its G20 presidency. The hosts have picked “solidarity, equality, sustainability” as the theme of the G20 this year.
South Africa, the first African nation to hold the group’s presidency, says it will try to advance the interests of poor countries, especially with debt refinancing and helping them mitigate the impacts of climate change, where the developing world is asking rich countries to pay more.
Rubio posted on X this month that he would also not attend the main G20 summit in Johannesburg in November, saying South Africa was using the gathering to promote diversity, equality and inclusion frameworks, “In other words: DEI and climate change.”
“My job is to advance America’s national interests, not waste taxpayer money or coddle anti-Americanism,” Rubio wrote.
While European allies have their own concerns over future cooperation with the Trump administration after they were sidelined by its move to hold bilateral talks this week with Russia, the G20 meeting was still an opportunity for the EU to promote inclusivity.
“Multilateralism is under threat right now,” EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said in South Africa, “We also need to use this opportunity to develop the international system further to be more inclusive for all countries in the world.”
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I do not blame him.
But Al Sharpton and the Left believe that blacks cannot be racist because they don't control the levers of power.
As J.D. would explain to Al and the Left, white people in Appalachia don't control the levers of power either.
Among other things, Rubio knows what they’re doing to the white farmers in SA.
“My job is to advance America’s national interests, not waste taxpayer money or coddle anti-Americanism,” Rubio wrote.
Refreshing. Can we apply that to the UN and the WEF as well?
The AP is spinning so much, I fear they’re getting dizzy...
The blacks stealing and pillaging from the white farmers probably sealed the deal (there is worse).
Fake news is showing the even more fake South African politicians making promises. Like only giving away “unoccupied land”, not developed land..BS BS BS.
It’s hate, racial hate pure and simple, stealing from white people. They made the farms, they built the country and many, many Africans there now immigrated in to find jobs in mines, farms and factories. The Boers have been there FOUR hundred years. By contrast 5 million blacks in SA moved there since 1990 (as of 2005–much higher today) to work.
South Africa is a rich and developing nation? Hasn't it been in a state of steady decline ever since about 1994?
ZIMBABWE 2.0
I do not blame him.
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It’s refreshing to see brave bold leadership in action for a change. Both Trump and Rubio are calling things out the way they see it and taking action accordingly.
Maybe the US can appear by Zoom. I suggest Jeffrey Toobin to be the rep.
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