Trump wants Putin to rejoin The G8

[Eldorado]

"Russia should be part of the Group of Seven again, President Donald Trump said on Tuesday, suggesting that President Barack Obama pushed the country out because he didn’t like that President Vladimir Putin had “outsmarted” him.

"Russia was suspended from what was then known as the G8 — representing the world’s most industrialized and developed economies — in 2014 after it illegally seized Crimea from Ukraine, but Putin and Trump have downplayed G7 leaders’ criticisms of Russia."

Full report at Politico EU: https://www.politico.eu/article/trump-appropriate-for-russia-to-return-to-g-7/

And at CNN: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/08/20/politics/donald-trump-russia-g8-g7/index.html

Edited August 21, 2019 by Eldorado

[+OverSword]

Ummmm....No.  All sanctions and other penalties should remain in effect and be amplified.  They took over a peice of another countries land and shot down a jet full of civilians.

Edited August 21, 2019 by OverSword

[aztek]

3 minutes ago, OverSword said:

Ummmm....No.  All sanctions and other penalties should remain in effect and be amplified.

that would be all good  if many EU countries did not buy russian gas.  

knda ironic when these countries are dependent on Russia's gas yet want NATO to keep them safe from Russians,

Edited August 21, 2019 by aztek

[+OverSword]

1 minute ago, aztek said:

that would be all good  if many EU countries did not buy russian gas.  

Then they'll have to pay more.

[aztek]

6 minutes ago, OverSword said:

Then they'll have to pay more.

i do not think they agree with you. 

[+OverSword]

1 minute ago, aztek said:

i do not think they agree with you. 

When they dominate the world economy I'll care. 

[aztek]

5 minutes ago, OverSword said:

When they dominate the world economy I'll care. 

good point. however they do buy Russian gas, and do not intend to stop,  there is also this "keep your friends close, enemies closer" concept

Edited August 21, 2019 by aztek

[+OverSword]

3 minutes ago, aztek said:

good point. however they do buy Russian gas, and do not intend to stop,  there is also this "keep your friends close, enemies closer" concept

True.  And at some point watching a Vietnam war documentary I realized Americas mistake was going to war with Vietnam instead of making them a major trading partner.  Make people wealthy and they tend to shy away from oligarchs and dictators.  God please don't let Helen read that. 

[aztek]

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The European Union imports 69% of its natural gas, according to the European Commission. The latest available data shows 37% of the imported gas comes from Russia, about 33% from Norway, and 11% from Algeria.

And while the European Union vowed to cut its dependency on Russian gas after the crisis in Ukraine, Russian exports to Europe have risen to record levels in the last two years.

Austrian imports of Russian gas nearly doubled in the first quarter of 2018, compared to last year.

 

https://money.cnn.com/2018/06/05/news/economy/russia-europe-gas-dependency/index.html