Donald Trump repeats call for Russia to be readmitted at G7 summit in Canada
Donald Trump has displayed his disdain for the collective western values supposedly championed by the G7 group of industrialised countries by again demanding that Russia be readmitted to the group. He also said the war in Ukraine would not have happened if Moscow had been kept in the club.
Trump made his remarks in front of media, alongside Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, who is hosting the G7, at the start of the summit’s first round of talks.
Russia was thrown out of the G8 after it invaded Crimea in 2014, and Trump’s defence of Vladimir Putin came a day before the US president is scheduled to meet his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, on the fringes of the summit. It will be the first meeting between the two men since Pope’s Francis’s funeral in April. […]
Earlier in the day he repeated his opinion that expelling Russia from the G8 was a “big mistake”.
“You wouldn’t have that war,” he said. “You know you have your enemy at the table, I don’t even consider, he wasn’t really an enemy at that time.”
He blamed the former Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau and Barack Obama for Putin’s expulsion.
“Obama didn’t want him, and the head of your country didn’t want him,” Trump said, naming Trudeau several times and calling the ousting a mistake.
As the article fails to mention, though others have done, Trudeau wasn’t running Canada in 2014; the right-winger Stephen Harper was. That’s not really the point, though, which is the assertion that Russia wouldn’t be doing this Ukraine shit if they were still part of the club. This is idiotic and nonsensical even for Mushroom Cock, cos Russia was still in the G8, as it then was, when shit started in 2014, and that didn’t stop them. Nor did being kicked out of the G8 faze them, they just said “LOL whatever, we have other friends who’ll play with us”…
But whatever indeed, Trump’s already gone home to watch over the current Iran/Israel bullshit and issue big threatening statements for people to evacuate on behalf of his other lord and master, Bibi, although I’m sure part of that is also because he was still smarting from the failure of his little parade on the weekend… also I don’t suppose he was happy about Mark Carney cutting off that media gathering when he started going off the rails, how dare the man who didn’t want the US to annex his country do that to him… Obviously, Australian media cares mostly about the fact that Albo’s scheduled meeting with him won’t be going ahead, and I suppose Albo himself is disappointed on a professional level, but I also suspect he and the rest of the G7 crowd are kind of glad he’s buggered off…
