Trump: 'There would be no war' if Russia were in G8 [View all]
KANANASKIS, Alberta — “The G7 used to be the G8,” Donald Trump mused after a bilateral meeting with host Prime Minister Mark Carney at the G7 summit in the Canadian Rockies.
Standing next to a mute Carney on Monday, the U.S. president blamed his predecessor, Barack Obama, and previous Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for dropping Russia from the alliance over its 2014 invasion of the Crimean peninsula.
“Barack Obama and a person named Trudeau didn’t want to have Russia in. And I would say that was a mistake because you wouldn’t have a war right now,” he said of Moscow’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
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Contrary to Trump’s claim, it was actually former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper who helped boot Putin from the G8. Several months after Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, Harper confronted Putin at a private leaders’ retreat ahead of the G20 summit in Australia.
https://www.politico.eu/article/us-donald-trump-no-war-russia-g8-g7-putin/
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