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G7: COLD WAR LEGACY. STRUGGLING FOR RELEVANCE

  • Writer: Outrageously Yours
    Outrageously Yours
  • Jun 3
  • 2 min read

Once upon a time, the G7 steered the world. Today, it mostly issues press releases. The contrast is not just symbolic—it’s existential.

We @ “Outrageously Yours” Collapse the Truth in to a Disruptive Punchline - "Influence Diluted. Voice Muted."

 



 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is unlikely to attend the upcoming G7 summit in Canada, scheduled for June 15–17, 2025, marking his first absence from the forum since 2019. The dominating concern is

“G7 wants to govern a polyphonic world with a monologue club. Like UN Security Council – it has become a hall of expired power, where the history sits but the future does not listen.”

WHAT WAS G7?

It was the core committee of capitalism. The post-WWII West—U.S., UK, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and Canada—created a backroom where the world's richest economies could coordinate policy, prevent shocks, and protect the dollar-driven world order.

It was never democratic. It was never global. It didn’t need to be. Because they owned the money, the tech, the trade, and the nukes.

WHAT IS G7 NOW?

A summit of senior citizens pretending to DJ the dance floor.Here’s the reality:

  • G7’s share of global GDP has shrunk from 70% in the 1980s to under 43% today.

  • China and India—now 2 of the top 3 economies—aren’t in the room.

  • The BRICS+ alliance now outproduces the G7 in PPP terms.

  • It’s not even a crisis manager anymore—G20 took that job in 2008.

THEIR BIG IDEAS FLOPPED:

  • Build Back Better World (counter to China’s BRI)? Vaporware.

  • Climate finance for the Global South? Promised billions, delivered cents.

  • Unity on Ukraine? Sure. But Global South abstains while G7 preaches.

THE IDEA BETWEEN MESSSAGE AND MUSCLE

They speak of order. The world feels chaos.They invoke democracy. The world hears hypocrisy. They talk growth. The world sees gated wealth.

When G7 invites Modi and Modi skips, when Africa yawns at climate platitudes, when India trades with Russia while G7 sanctions it—you realize:

THIS ISN’T LEADERSHIP. IT’S LEGACY. WHAT’S NEXT?

The G7 has three roads ahead:

  1. Shrink and become a Western think tank.

  2. Expand into a real global body—G10 or G14—with India, Brazil, Indonesia, Nigeria.

  3. Fade into polite irrelevance—the Davos of diplomacy, high on talk, low on traction.

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