SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: The entire architecture of the post-war international order, the Security Council veto, the IMF voting weights, the WTO rules, the dollar as a reserve currency, was built to ensure that 7.2 billion people would not have proportional influence over the decisions that shape their lives.

Sunday, 1 November 2026

The entire architecture of the post-war international order, the Security Council veto, the IMF voting weights, the WTO rules, the dollar as a reserve currency, was built to ensure that 7.2 billion people would not have proportional influence over the decisions that shape their lives.

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Here is the arithmetic that the phrase "Global South" obscures:

Africa: 1.6 billion people.

Asia: 4.9 billion people.

Latin America and the Caribbean: 670 million people.

Together: roughly 7.2 billion people out of 8.3 billion on earth.

The "Global South" is not a minority asking to be included.

It is the majority that has been structured out of power.

The entire architecture of the post-war international order, the Security Council veto, the IMF voting weights, the WTO rules, the dollar as a reserve currency, was built to ensure that 7.2 billion people would not have proportional influence over the decisions that shape their lives.

That architecture is not natural law.

It is a set of choices made by the winners of a particular moment in history, encoded as permanent, and maintained by the threat of consequences for those who question it.

Questioning it is not radical.

It is arithmetic.