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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDo you think Drumpf will invite Putin to G7 @ Doral?
Asking for a friend whos interested in reality and television.
Kid Berwyn
(15,050 posts)Make everyone forget about all the treasonous parts.
SuprstitionAintthWay
(386 posts)Maybe Abe, too.
When the G-8 expels a member, if one of the remaining members, even the host, unilaterally invites the outcast back to the table with all of them, I'd certainly expect some of the others whose decisions are being nullified and steamrolled by the one flaming asshole, to walk away from the meeting.
I have some hope that even "just" the obvious corruption of the Trump Doral Resort location, which means the other leaders will be spending their citizens' tax revenues on trips that line the pocket of the U.S. president, will lead some to decline to attend. Merkel, Macron, and Trudeau, maybe. Such a declination most of the world would also understand as a symbolic, sympathetic hand being offered to the tragically flagging institution, American democracy.
Arazi
(6,829 posts)Either way #Traitor does his masters bidding and they come out on top
Leghorn21
(13,527 posts)No doubt whatsomever
Kid Berwyn
(15,050 posts)Service, like.
All roads lead to Putin.
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2019/10/18/all-roads-lead-to-putin-this-week-in-impeachment/
Leghorn21
(13,527 posts)Eat your heart out, Melanie
Kid Berwyn
(15,050 posts)Its what ass-kissers do when the Boss walks in.
TruckFump
(5,812 posts)Yep...and I hope Vlad gets a room full of bedbugs!
Kid Berwyn
(15,050 posts)ooky
(8,933 posts)The G7 should become the G6, and tell this traitor to go fuck himself.
Kid Berwyn
(15,050 posts)Mission deep into Syria revealed after Israeli operatives say President's leak 'confirmed our worst fears'
Jon Sharman
The Independent (UK) 23 November 2017
Details have emerged of the highly-classified Israeli intelligence revealed by Donald Trump to Russian officials earlier this year.
The US Presidents decision to spill the information during a meeting with foreign minister Sergei Lavrov was described as having brought Israeli spies worst fears to life.
Israel and the US have a close intelligence-sharing relationship but spies from the Middle Eastern nation had previously been warned not to share sensitive details with the Trump White House, according to reports in Israeli media.
During his meeting with Mr Lavrov and the Russian ambassador Sergei Kislyak, Mr Trump is now said to have revealed the details of a the covert Israeli operation that exposed Isis plans to create new laptop bombs and smuggle them aboard commercial airliners.
US reporters were barred from the meeting and the only images that documented it were taken by Russias TASS news agency.
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-russia-israel-intelligence-share-isis-mossad-spies-sergei-lavrov-kislyak-us-a8071086.html
FakeNoose
(32,884 posts)They - Chump and Pootie
Kid Berwyn
(15,050 posts)By Jim Sciutto, Chief National Security Correspondent
CNN, Sept. 17, 2017
Washington (CNN)In a previously undisclosed secret mission in 2017, the United States successfully extracted from Russia one of its highest-level covert sources inside the Russian government, multiple Trump administration officials with direct knowledge told CNN.
A person directly involved in the discussions said that the removal of the Russian was driven, in part, by concerns that President Donald Trump and his administration repeatedly mishandled classified intelligence and could contribute to exposing the covert source as a spy.
The decision to carry out the extraction occurred soon after a May 2017 meeting in the Oval Office in which Trump discussed highly classified intelligence with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and then-Russian Ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak. The intelligence, concerning ISIS in Syria, had been provided by Israel.
The disclosure to the Russians by the President, though not about the Russian spy specifically, prompted intelligence officials to renew earlier discussions about the potential risk of exposure, according to the source directly involved in the matter.
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https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/09/politics/russia-us-spy-extracted/index.html
Seems like a long time ago...
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)And Ivanka, of course. It will be a complete shitshow if it is allowed to happen.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Kid Berwyn
(15,050 posts)Excerpt...
She seemed so out of place, but she was making a place for herself, too postWhite House, postNew York, even post-America, a princess diplomat astride the globe, flying the next day to South Korea to greet service members, accompanying her father to the demilitarized zone to meet Kim Jong-un, and watched by people all around the world for whom the images would be indelible, the proximity much more important than the snootiness. Who cared whether some New Yorkers were cringing with shame. As always, her father was among the audience, though of course he already believed she belonged. This spring, while she was touring the Ivory Coast, she revealed that hed offered her the job of running the World Bank; he thought it made sense, he said, because she was good with numbers.
https://www.thecut.com/2019/08/what-will-ivanka-trump-do-after-she-leaves-the-white-house.html
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)She is as much of a joke as her father. "Good with numbers" She knows how to count her ill-gained cash. That's about it. The entire family has a combined IQ of less than 100. She isn't qualified to be a hostess at a chain restaurant.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Patterson
(1,534 posts)tblue37
(65,528 posts)Kid Berwyn
(15,050 posts)ENERGY, PUTIN: An official said that G7 discussion topics have been mainly Russian energy, its military policy and economy, so Moscow should be brought back into it
AP, WASHINGTON
Taipei Times, Oct. 20, 2019
Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney on Thursday outlined the priorities that the US administration would like its strongest allies to adopt when the US hosts three days of meetings in Florida in June next year.
As the host nation, the US is in charge of the summits focus.
Rolling back government regulation is in. So is energy generation. Russian President Vladimir Putin could be as well. Climate change is out.
Mulvaney said that the US plan for the summit would involve taking a lot of what we have been doing here domestically with such success and trying to encourage the rest of the world to get on board.
Climate change will not be on the agenda, he said.
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http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2019/10/20/2003724314
Trump primes the pump for Big Oil, be they Texan, Saudi Arabian, or Russian.
Baitball Blogger
(46,776 posts)What happens if Trump gets kicked out of office and it's too late to host the G7 anywhere else, but Doral? I would love to see the video of his groveling as he tries to become the perfect host to leaders who can openly show their hatred towards him.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Why would they bother to even pretend?
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,601 posts)Melania hasn't slept on that bed in decades, after all.
not_the_one
(2,227 posts)Hopefully, no one else will be there.
Sneederbunk
(14,319 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)He doesnt even bother to pretend about his hots for Dick-Tators.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,227 posts)FM123
(10,054 posts)You just reminded me that he actually said this. Miss Universe pageant in Russia I think?
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,227 posts)Link to tweet
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Wounded Bear
(58,773 posts)kimbutgar
(21,270 posts)It is already in a gold embossed envelope with Putins name in calligraphy.
a kennedy
(29,771 posts)Vinca
(50,326 posts)Poiuyt
(18,133 posts)Don't all the member nations need to vote on who is a member of the group?