Trump's boycott of the G20 summit exposes South Africa's dangerous drift toward authoritarianism and anti-Western alignment. The country's cozy relationships with Russia and China through BRICS, combined with discriminatoryradical land seizure policies and tolerancerising for anti-white rhetoricviolence, disqualify it from representing major economies. onSouth Africa's inflammatory genocide accusations against Israel at the worldInternational stageCourt of Justice prove it's become a destabilizing force that undermines global cooperation.
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There is a 9 percent chance that South Africa will experience a civil war before 2036, according to the Metaculus prediction community.
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