In typical Donald Trump fashion?
He’s going to a meeting he doesn’t want to be at with America’s, Not Trump’s national allies….
So what does the guy do?
Makes SURE he pisses the leaders of those countries off…
Make no mistake….
The PEOPLE of those countries have ties and are fine with American’s in general….
But the they, like 60% or so of American’s?
Could do without the guy who managed to game the American political system and get elected…..
His suggestion that the G-7 welcome Russia back into the fold is likely to further heighten tensions in Quebec, where the president is expected to meet with allies irate over his decision to impose tariffs on imports from Canada and the European Union.
The G-7, short for group of seven, was previously the G-8 until 2014, when the group’s members expelled Russia over its invasion and annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea region. The G-7’s current membership includes the U.S., Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom.
“I would recommend — and it’s up to them, but Russia should be in the meeting, it should be a part of it. You know, whether you like it or not, and it may not be politically correct, but we have a world to run,” Trump told reporters. “And in the G-7, which used to be the G-8, they threw Russia out. They should let Russia come back in. Because we should have Russia at the negotiating table.”
Trump’s support for Russia’s reentry into the group of the world’s most powerful economies adds to the lengthy list of warm gestures he has offered for the Kremlin and its leader, President Vladimir Putin. Critics of the president have long complained that his foreign policy is too soft on Russia, which the U.S. intelligence community has said sought to interfere in the 2016 election on Trump’s behalf, especially relative to the president’s get-tough approach to foreign policy elsewhere around the globe….
Note….
Could Trump’s comment be looked as a ‘payback’ to Russian help in getting him elected President?
Update….
Trump will leave the G-7 Meeting early to fly to his meeting in Singapore with North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un….
via twitter…
Manu Raju
@mkraju
Ben Sasse on Trump saying Russia should be added to make it the G-8:
“This is weak. Putin is not our friend and he is not the President’s buddy. He is a thug using Soviet-style aggression to wage a shadow war against America, and our leaders should act like it.”
The US paid a huge price for getting Russia’s interference in the election.
Yea and Trump wants to reward THEM!
This guy needs to GO!…..
Punish Canada, Japan and Western Europe while rewarding Russia, as Russian forces are in direct conflict with American ones in Syria ?
How many Russian troops do you remember fighting and dying side by side with American, Canadian, French and British forces in Afghanistan, Iraq, Kuwait and the Balkans ?
Russian troups were in Afghanistan – just a few years earlier than us!