Trump says G7 should become G8 with Russia being readmitted

Once again, Trump working hard for Russia. There's a definitive pattern there.

Well there you have it: Trump repeating the directives from Moscow. Europe will have to go its own way.

G7 and BRICS membership are not compatible as BRICS nations take a pledge to not use economic sanctions against fellow BRICS nations. The G7 has basically devolved into a sanctioning agency under the direction of the USA.

"I'd love to have them back. I think it was a mistake to throw them out. Look, it's not a question of liking Russia or not liking Russia. It was the G8," Trump said at the White House when he announced new U.S. reciprocal tariffs.

Nope. Not until they return all of Ukraine, including Crimea to Ukraine will they be a member of the G8.

In any case Putin has run his economy into the ground with the war in Ukraine. It's not a great country anymore.

TaiwanIsNotChina

Well there you have it: Trump repeating the directives from Moscow. Europe will have to go its own way.

Trump is such an easy Mark. Putin just needs to pander to his ego and bingo he has control of him.

Once again, Trump working hard for Russia. There's a definitive pattern there.

I think it would be a noble gesture to allow Russia in, they should be.

bass4funkToday  07:44 am JST

Once again, Trump working hard for Russia. There's a definitive pattern there. 

I think it would be a noble gesture to allow Russia in, they should be.

You may have declared peace with russia but Putin has not.

Putin just needs to pander to his ego and bingo he has control of him.

That's part of it, but it's more about Trump being in thrall to absolute dictators. He wishes he could wield power like Putin or Xi or Kim.

Also, Trump doesn't stand up to countries and leaders who pose real existential threats. He goes after Denmark, Panama, Canada, South Africa, Colombia, Jordan, and the EU instead. Classic coward bully.

In his words, America's allies are often "worse than our enemies".

You may have declared peace with russia but Putin has not.

Well, I think being a superhero and ignoring Russia is not a good thing for anyone, it hasn’t helped the international community, it’s pushed Russia to China, you can handle Russia in other ways without making them stronger by them aligning themselves with another major ally. The problem with the left is, they focus too much on pride, pride can get you killed, think long game here. So yes, I think they should be allowed back in to the G7.

Also, Trump doesn't stand up to countries and leaders who pose real existential threats.

Well, he does, but not in the antagonistic ways the left wants and that’s a good thing.

He goes after Denmark, Panama, Canada, South Africa, Colombia, Jordan, and the EU instead. Classic coward bully.

So he should allow our allies to take advantage of us? Interesting…

In his words, America's allies are often "worse than our enemies".

They can be.

bass4funkToday  08:11 am JST

You may have declared peace with russia but Putin has not.

Well, I think being a superhero and ignoring Russia is not a good thing for anyone, it hasn’t helped the international community, it’s pushed Russia to China, you can handle Russia in other ways without making them stronger by them aligning themselves with another major ally. The problem with the left is, they focus too much on pride, pride can get you killed, think long game here. So yes, I think they should be allowed back in to the G7.

russia will always be China's poodle going forward because no one wants to deal with invading and anti-American animals except apparently MAGAs.

bass4funk

You may have declared peace with russia but Putin has not.

it’s pushed Russia to China, you can handle Russia

Well China is what is stopping Putin using nuclear weapons in Ukraine, so I say this is a good thing.

The problem with the left is, they focus too much on pride, pride can get you killed, think long game here. So yes, I think they should be allowed back in to the G7.

Nothing to do with pride - we don't reward terrorism. As soon as we give up to terrorists they walk all over you.

bass4funkToday  08:11 am JST

you can handle Russia in other ways without making them stronger by them aligning themselves with another major ally. 

I guarantee what will make russia stronger is handing them Ukraine.

Not until Russia stops its war and repays for its damage and returns all of more than 100,000 abducted children. Terror should not be rewarded—reports of Putin invading other countries before 2030.

Haha.

The international isolation of Russia has broken like a flimsy balsa wood dam. Truth is Russia was never 'isolated' and the economy is roaring - everyone is making themselves poorer by not engaging with it.

The Ruble shot up like a rocket the other day when the phone call was announced - stocks on the Moscow exchange went into orbit - and most likely this will help too.

Peace and prosperity for all decent, genuinely sovereign countries.

—Also, Trump doesn't stand up to countries and leaders who pose real existential threats. 

Well, he does, but not in the antagonistic ways the left wants

How is it possible to stand up to Putin without being antagonistic? Makes no sense.

BINGO as one of our MAGA friends would say...there it is in black and white...

Putin's Poodle doing his bidding...

An American President groveling at the feet of a Russian dictator...

Absolutely disgusting...

PresidentVanceToday  08:43 am JST

Well there you have it: Trump repeating the directives from Moscow. 

No, he isn't.

Trump was under no obligation to say Ukraine will not be in NATO or that the US will not be sending troops to secure the country but yet here we are.

TaiwanIsNotChinaToday  08:49 am JST

Anyone can guess that. Was never realistically going to happen.

JJEToday  08:54 am JST

TaiwanIsNotChinaToday  08:49 am JST

Anyone can guess that. Was never realistically going to happen.

On the contrary: Biden would have helped terrorists get put into the ground until it did.

And yet more brilliancy by Trump on the global stage.

JJEToday 08:32 am JST

The international isolation of Russia has broken like a flimsy balsa wood dam.

Wrong. What is happening is that Trump is (predictably) pandering to a dictator.

Countless other countries are still rightly isolating Russia, and there is zero chance of accused war criminal Putin attending any G8 summits.

Truth is Russia was never 'isolated'

Truth is it was, and still is.

and the economy is roaring

The economy is on an unsustainable war footing with around 40% of the budget spent on the military, trade with the free world has dropped immeasurably, energy export profits are down, inflation is up, reserve currency is in short supply, it is suffering a severe brain and manpower drain, it has millions involved in the war that could be working in the economy, its reputation and trading relations will not recover for many generations, and it is now a vassal of China.

But apart from that...

Peace and prosperity for all decent, genuinely sovereign countries.

Ukraine is a sovereign country per the UN, and all other measures.

And yet you support Putin's bringing of not peace and prosperity, but murder, rape, torture, destruction, and child abduction.

This guy is the best President for the US. Cut defense spending, denuclearization, cut USA slush funds. He has the wisdom second time around.

The way this is supposed to work is Russia stops doing bad things and THEN they get rewarded with sanctions removed. If you remove sanctions without any positive prior action by Russia, what's the point? Trump will hassle every control on the planet with firedrills around tariffs, but he wants to give stuff freely to Russia without any prior payment-in-kind? What a fool.

astounding how much trump is bending over for putin.

Why would Russia rejoin?

BRICS presently represents a bigger percentage of the global economy than the G7, unlike the G7 is extremely diverse, and unlike the G7 countries, it'll be decades before most countries of BRICS have the 'upside down' demographics where the percentage of people in their last 3 decades of life is greater than the percentage of people in their first 3 decades of life.

And what guarantee is there that the self righteous sanctimonious White Bloc won't simply kick their DEI member out again?

Trump's actions so far will have doubled the number of countries preparing applications to become at least 'associate' BRICS members in the past 50 days, Who knows, by the time Trump reaches 500 days, there might be G7 and EU states begging to join BRICS too.

RichardPearceFeb. 14 10:02 pm JST

Why would Russia rejoin?

BRICS presently represents a bigger percentage of the global economy than the G7, unlike the G7 is extremely diverse, and unlike the G7 countries,

That's why the true free world is represented by the OECD which is larger than BRICS. Also India isn't your ally.

it'll be decades before most countries of BRICS have the 'upside down' demographics where the percentage of people in their last 3 decades of life is greater than the percentage of people in their first 3 decades of life.

But still long before they are rich.

And what guarantee is there that the self righteous sanctimonious White Bloc won't simply kick their DEI member out again?

russia is not white now?

quercetumFeb. 14 11:29 am JST

This guy is the best President for the US. Cut defense spending, denuclearization, cut USA slush funds. He has the wisdom second time around.

Well, yes, you believe he's got the US all primed to cheer on an invasion of Taiwan. Also US defense spending is not going down.

bass4funkFeb. 14 08:13 am JST

He goes after Denmark, Panama, Canada, South Africa, Colombia, Jordan, and the EU instead. Classic coward bully.

So he should allow our allies to take advantage of us? Interesting…

In his words, America's allies are often "worse than our enemies".

They can be.

In the real world, russia gaining a large part of the Black Sea coastline and agricultural land is not enhancing US national security.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he would love to have Russia return to the Group of Seven nations, saying it was a mistake for Moscow to be expelled.

No surprises there, then.

bass4funkFeb. 14  08:13 am JST

"Also, Trump doesn't stand up to countries and leaders who pose real existential threats."

Well, he does, but not in the antagonistic ways the left wants and that’s a good thing.

So - um, how does he stand up to them, exactly?