Even before the explosion Donald Trump’s comments In the match against South Africa, Javier Millay was considering not attending the Group of 20 (G20) summit.) will be held in Johannesburg between Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd.
After it was over, that feeling got even stronger. Boycott of the last hours of major alliesthe President of the United States issued the following judgment on Friday: Government officials will not attend Attend the 20th meeting of this group of emerging countries, the first of its kind in an African country, hosted by South Africans.
Argentine government officials said they are currently evaluating it at the Millei summit. Foreign Minister Pablo Kirno was appointed as his successor.The information could not be confirmed because he has not yet formed the same team as his predecessor, businessman Gerard Vertein. Millay attended the first G20 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in November 2024.
On Friday, Trump wrote on his Truth Social account:It’s a total shame that the G20 summit will be held in South Africa.“And he succumbed to a theory, already popularized at the time by his former friend Elon Musk, for which there was no statistical evidence: ‘Afrikaners (descendants of Dutch settlers, French and German immigrants) are being murdered and massacred, and their lands and farms are being illegally confiscated,’ he concluded.”As long as these human rights violations continue, U.S. government officials will not attend. “We look forward to hosting the 2026 G20 Summit in Miami, Florida,” Trump said, calling for his Mar-a-Lago residence to be moved into his personal world.
Not all of Trump’s battles are the same as Miley’s, but there are some similarities. For example, the Republican attack on the South African government for its stance on Israel in the face of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s jihad in Gaza after the October 7, 2023 terrorist attack on Israeli territory.
Since early 2024, South Africa has said that Israel’s bombing of Gaza, which is estimated to have killed more than 60,000 Palestinians,genocide“And he has formally lodged a complaint with the International Court of Justice in The Hague. This genocide is nothing short of a destruction of Palestinian life. It was deliberately inflicted and no one, not even a newborn baby, can be forgiven,” Pretoria’s legal brief states.
In November 2024, Cyril Ramaphosa’s government welcomed arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his former defense minister Job Gallant, and Hamas terrorist Mohammed Deif on war crimes charges. at that time, Mr. Milley formally rejected an arrest order for Mr. Netanyahu, another key ally on the international stage.
In addition to being less proactive on the multilateral front, rather passive and destructive; Libertarian governments are largely inactive within the G20. Milley must have met just once with former senator Federico Pinedo, a so-called Sherpa (representative), before the G20. He pays little attention to the subject.
But Mr. Milley’s reasons for following in Mr. Trump’s footsteps are the same reasons that libertarians, who receive strong political and financial support from Republicans to keep their government in place, do in foreign policy. In fact, these have very different implications for the United States and G20 member Argentina. Having even lost the category of “emerging” country, the country “miraculously” remains there, as some experts say.
Mr. Trump is mysteriously governing a country that was a pillar of creation. A few months ago, he hosted Ramaphosa at the White House and humiliated him.
In the case of Argentina, it was former president Carlos Menem and his economy minister Domingo Caballo who succeeded in bringing the country into this select group, which Britain had repeatedly wanted to exclude from Argentina due to disputes over the sovereignty of the Malvinas Islands. This would at least give Argentina the prestige of belonging, but due to its large numbers Argentina should not be in the country.
In Latin America, only Brazil and Mexico are members of the G20. Internationally, these include the United States, China, Russia, Canada, India, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Australia, Turkey, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, the entire European Union, and select countries.
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