Trump Breaks With G-7 to Urge Russia’s Return

[FollowTheWay]

Trump Breaks With G-7 to Urge Russia’s Return

Trump’s comments threw another wrench into the Group of Seven gathering underway in the scenic Charlevoix region just north of the Maine border. He will miss at least some of the summit’s second day after speculation he’d cancel his appearance entirely amid public criticism from allies over steel and aluminum tariffs imposed by the U.S. in recent weeks. Instead, he appears ready to fire back with his America First mantra.

Trump’s gambit may further inflame tensions with other leaders, including British Prime Minister Theresa May. Britain’s relations with Russia are at their worst since the Cold War, following the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in the English town of Salisbury this year. After years in which Russia’s wealthy were invited to base themselves in London without questions being asked about how they made their money, the Home Office is reviewing visas.

“We’ve always been clear that we should engage with Russia, but the phrase I’ve used is engage but beware,” May said Friday. “And let’s remember why the G-8 became the G-7, it was because Russia illegally annexed Crimea, and before any conversations of this sort can happen, we have to ensure that Russia is actually mending its ways and taking a different route.”

Despite the Russia development, the issue of tariffs may loom largest over Friday’s talks. France’s Emmanuel Macron has warned he won’t sign a joint statement unless Trump makes concessions on trade. “The American President may not mind being isolated, but neither do we mind signing a 6 country agreement if need be,” he tweeted.

 

[Revmitchell]

Good for him

 

[Yeshua1]

Trump Breaks With G-7 to Urge Russia’s Return

Trump’s comments threw another wrench into the Group of Seven gathering underway in the scenic Charlevoix region just north of the Maine border. He will miss at least some of the summit’s second day after speculation he’d cancel his appearance entirely amid public criticism from allies over steel and aluminum tariffs imposed by the U.S. in recent weeks. Instead, he appears ready to fire back with his America First mantra.

Trump’s gambit may further inflame tensions with other leaders, including British Prime Minister Theresa May. Britain’s relations with Russia are at their worst since the Cold War, following the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in the English town of Salisbury this year. After years in which Russia’s wealthy were invited to base themselves in London without questions being asked about how they made their money, the Home Office is reviewing visas.

“We’ve always been clear that we should engage with Russia, but the phrase I’ve used is engage but beware,” May said Friday. “And let’s remember why the G-8 became the G-7, it was because Russia illegally annexed Crimea, and before any conversations of this sort can happen, we have to ensure that Russia is actually mending its ways and taking a different route.”

Despite the Russia development, the issue of tariffs may loom largest over Friday’s talks. France’s Emmanuel Macron has warned he won’t sign a joint statement unless Trump makes concessions on trade. “The American President may not mind being isolated, but neither do we mind signing a 6 country agreement if need be,” he tweeted.

VERY refreshing to see a president pytting America first, rather than the prior one who put all other nations before us!

 

[Adonia]

I loved it when he said we were just a piggy bank that keeps getting robbed. So true, and it was by our "friends" no less! Democrats and the establishment Republicans have been giving away the store for years in the name of "international cooperation" and President Trump has put his foot down and saying no more.

 

[Matt Black]

Ok, so you're on your own now with this President. None or your former allies including the UK will lift a finger next time a loony flies a plane into one of your building. You stand alone. If that's what you want, fine... but don't come whining to the rest of us when the inevitable happens.

 

[Covenanter]

America's wealth depends on plundering the world & giving aid in return.
Where will your markets be with an isolationist policy?

 

[Revmitchell]

America's wealth depends on plundering the world & giving aid in return.
Where will your markets be with an isolationist policy?

Alrighty then

 

[Reynolds]

Ok, so you're on your own now with this President. None or your former allies including the UK will lift a finger next time a loony flies a plane into one of your building. You stand alone. If that's what you want, fine... but don't come whining to the rest of us when the inevitable happens.

We don't need your help. Just stay out of the way when the tail kicking begins.

 

[Reynolds]

America's wealth depends on plundering the world & giving aid in return.
Where will your markets be with an isolationist policy?

Riding high, our markets will be riding high.

 

[church mouse guy]

Now, now, as Powell said, the Europeans did allow us to bury our dead in their countries.

 

[Matt Black]

Isolated at G-7, Trump says he wants to let Russia back in

McCain's comments are particularly pertinent: "The president has inexplicably shown our adversaries the deference and esteem that should be reserved for our closest allies," McCain said. "Those nations that share our values and have sacrificed alongside us for decades are being treated with contempt."

 

[church mouse guy]

Isolated at G-7, Trump says he wants to let Russia back in

McCain's comments are particularly pertinent: "The president has inexplicably shown our adversaries the deference and esteem that should be reserved for our closest allies," McCain said. "Those nations that share our values and have sacrificed alongside us for decades are being treated with contempt."

Just read that on weaselzippers.us

McCain stood for globalism, too, as well as free trade. Canadians, for example, pay about six dollars for a gallon of milk. I think that I pay around a dollar and a quarter more or less. Of course, Trump got into a mess talking about agriculture.

The truth is that the USA has bought too much from other nations and brought in too many cheap workers. We are bankrupt and our trade is going to fall off anyway.

How about Merkel, May, and Clinton for the three wierd sisters? Quds day in Berlin and London would fill the air with Arabic.

 

[Rippon]

Isolated at G-7, Trump says he wants to let Russia back in

McCain's comments are particularly pertinent: "The president has inexplicably shown our adversaries the deference and esteem that should be reserved for our closest allies," McCain said. "Those nations that share our values and have sacrificed alongside us for decades are being treated with contempt."

Our true allies are in Eastern Europe along with Italy and Austria among others.

The UK is not what it once was during the 1940s. They were at one with us then. But British people who are old enough to have lived through the WW2 era were of a much higher caliber than now.

 

[Covenanter]

Our true allies are in Eastern Europe along with Italy and Austria among others.

The UK is not what it once was during the 1940s. They were at one with us then. But British people who are old enough to have lived through the WW2 era were of a much higher caliber than now.

Are we allies of the US establishment or of the US people?

Thanks - I was born 6 months before WW2 began. This is my story, as told by my mother writing reminiscences years later.

Southampton was devastated by Nazi bombing. The nearest bombs demolished houses about 25 yards away. For about 10 years after the war we played in the garden of the "bombed house" & collected water creatures from a pond created by a bomb.

My wife was born in South London. The family moved out of town during the war. Their house was destroyed.

 

[church mouse guy]

Merkel said that the summit was a sobering experience. As for poor Trudeau, whom Raul Castro said was not the son of Fidel Castro, his artificial eyebrow slipped under the heat of the television lights. Merkel said that she regretted that the USA ditched the Iran deal, which I suppose is a signal that Berlin will continue to supply Iran for some of the cash that Iran now has. Germans are quite rich as they never pay their NATO dues.

 

[FollowTheWay]

Our true allies are in Eastern Europe along with Italy and Austria among others.

The UK is not what it once was during the 1940s. They were at one with us then. But British people who are old enough to have lived through the WW2 era were of a much higher caliber than now.

I suppose being our allies in Iraq doesn't count?

 

[FollowTheWay]

Just read that on weaselzippers.us

McCain stood for globalism, too, as well as free trade. Canadians, for example, pay about six dollars for a gallon of milk. I think that I pay around a dollar and a quarter more or less. Of course, Trump got into a mess talking about agriculture.

The truth is that the USA has bought too much from other nations and brought in too many cheap workers. We are bankrupt and our trade is going to fall off anyway.

How about Merkel, May, and Clinton for the three wierd sisters? Quds day in Berlin and London would fill the air with Arabic.

The U.S. still has the most wealth of any nation on earth. Doesn't it make sense that we would buy more from poorer countries than they buy from us? of course, our extreme inequality changes this significantly.

 

[FollowTheWay]

Trump removes US from G7 joint statement over escalating feud with Canada Trudeau
Trump removes U.S. from G-7 joint statement over escalating feud with Canada’s Trudeau

Now Trump is trashing Canada, our longtime friend and ally. I can't think of anything Canada has ever done to deserve this. looks like he wants to go it alone with the Russians.

Earlier Saturday, Trudeau criticized Trump’s recent decision to place tariffs on steel and aluminum from the European Union, Canada and Mexico, saying it was “insulting” that Trump cited U.S. national security as his reason for doing so.

“Canadians, we’re polite, we’re reasonable, but we also will not be pushed around,” Trudeau said at his own, separate news conference at the meeting’s end.

“I highlighted directly to the president that Canadians did not take it lightly that the United States has moved forward with significant tariffs on our steel and aluminum industry,” Trudeau said. “Particularly, [they] did not take lightly that it’s for a national security reason that for Canadians. . . who stood shoulder to shoulder with American soldiers in far off lands in conflicts from the First World War onward, it’s kind of insulting.”

 

[FollowTheWay]

European leaders indignant and defiant over Trump G7 statement
European leaders are indignant and defiant over Trump’s G-7 statement. But they’re not surprised.
On the day after the Group of Seven summit blew up in spectacular fashion, with Trump using idle time on an airport runway to insult his host and repudiate an agreement he had made with allied leaders only hours earlier, emotions were far easier to divine.

Allies were indignant. They were defiant. Yet they were hardly shocked by the outcome of a critical global gathering that had gone worse than any that longtime foreign policy players had seen.

“It was not a surprise,” said Norbert Röttgen, chair of the foreign affairs committee in Germany’s parliament, the Bundestag. “The president acted and reacted in the childish way he could be expected to.”

To the U.S.’s closest partners, the pattern has become disturbingly familiar. Trump’s abandonment of the Paris climate accord and the Iran nuclear agreement and his decision to impose protectionist tariffs on European steel and aluminum products have established a level of animosity between the United States and Europe that, by many measures, surpasses even the rift over the Iraq War.

The depth of exasperation showed in a Sunday afternoon statement from French President Emmanuel Macron’s office.

"International cooperation cannot be dictated by fits of anger and throwaway remarks,” the statement said. “Let's be serious and worthy of our people.”

 

[FollowTheWay]

We don't need your help. Just stay out of the way when the tail kicking begins.

You'd better look behind you because more than half of America will be on the other side, against dictatorship.