Look east .

The G8 wrapped up it's spring jamboree.The Presidents and prime ministers of Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and the United States had met in the French resort of Deauville. The end result was another photo opportunity as they all congratulated themselves on what a good job they were doing.
The Good Doctor must be laughing in Damascus as he barely got a telling off for his continued brutality and talk of an exile strategy for Mad Mo and his psychotic family got an unimpressed Libyan response that the G8 was "an economic summit " and they were therefore " not concerned by its decisions".
With the usual rhetoric about democracy , freedom and the likes they cobbled together a paltry $forty billion as an incentive to democratize parts of the Middle East that are unimportant for them strategically but if that ever materializes no doubt it will be spent on goods from the donor countries and will not trickle down to the people whose aspirations they claim to be championing.
If that is the best the world has to offer in leadership then the decline of civilization as we know it is guaranteed.
Look east that is where the future is,the morally corrupt West is a lame duck.