R. Evan Ellis, Latin America research professor at the U.S. Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute: “Lula’s inappropriate comparison of Israel’s actions in Gaza to the Holocaust, and the diplomatic spat it provoked, arguably distracted from his attempt to leverage hosting the G20 to showcase Brazil as a nonaligned global power, brokering peace deals in Ukraine and the Middle East. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the conflict in the Middle East dominated the G20, although Brazil’s attempt to capitalize on these to push for U.N. reform got little traction. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s absence reduced somewhat the possibilities from the gathering. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov tried to leverage his presence to show Russia is not isolated. Although some such as Brazil struggled to avoid talking of Russian bad behavior, others, the United Kingdom, Germany and the E.U. Commission put Russia’s depredations in Ukraine at…”