Axios with a report on Trump's quick remarks prior to departure for the G7 in Canada yesterday.
Maybe with the arrest this week (finally!) by DOJ of the first of the criminal coup plotters against him he felt more empowered to start to finally introduce his policy changes wrt to Russia at this point...
This is interesting here (TRIGGER the libertarians):
"Russia should be in the meeting... You know whether you like it or not, and it may not be politically correct, but we have a world to run..."
Trump on G-7: "Why are we having a meeting without Russia being in the meeting? ... Russia should be in the meeting." pic.twitter.com/jvhgH3Gi06— Axios (@axios) June 8, 2018
Yes we do have a world to run....
ReplyDeleteBecause inflicting mass murder, pillage and impoverishment is just so darn important.
Well we can do a good job of it or a bad job of it...
ReplyDeleteKremlin spokesman Dmitriy Peskov denied that his country has any interest in rejoining world leaders at the G-7 summit.
ReplyDelete“Russia is focused on other formats, apart from the G7,” he said.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/8/russia-not-looking-rejoin-g7-summit/
Russia is turning East toward the Eurasian economic union, SCO and BRI as where the real action sin the future and giving the finger to the G7, NATO and the Atlantic alliance.
Russia's 'art of the deal' Tom, good move on their part imo.... two can play that game...
ReplyDeleteTrump knows what they are doing and probably respects it... he's going to have to give them something...
When Kissinger initially advised DJT, he explained to Trump how under Nixon the US split China off from Russia, who was the main competitor of the US at the time. Now it is China and Trump needs to do the reverse.
ReplyDeleteInstead, US policy is driving Russia and China into the only potential alliance at this time that could challenge the US and possibly even defeat it in a protracted land war in Asia, which would be Russia and China's fall back strategy.
Trump knows this. And he also realizes that keeping the pressure on Russia to some degree is good politics, since the US is so Russophobic, and it also makes economic sense to feed the the military-industrial complex, which keeps the Establishment off his butt as a bonus.
Because inflicting mass murder, pillage and impoverishment is just so darn important. Bob Roddis
ReplyDeleteAs if gold and deflation worshipers have not caused mass misery; e.g. the Spanish conquest of Mexico and South America in search of gold; e.g. the Great Depression and World War II.
George Orwell if alive today would be telling us the extreme right regimes in both Russia, the United States and China are seeking common ground with each other whilst deviously jockeying with each other for wealth and power advantage. Two legs bad - four legs good!
ReplyDeleteAndrew Anderson: Nobody "worships" gold and everyone is free to use whatever money they like best. Neither the Great Depression nor WWII were caused by gold or laissez faire. Total Lies.
ReplyDeleteI challenge Strauss and Jones (or anyone else but especially Keynesians and Monetarists) to prove rising prices provide an overall economic benefit.
ReplyDeleteSure, those with first access to money benefit (the banks, the already wealthy, and government bodies via taxation). But that is at the expense of everyone else.
The absurd underlying notion behind the battle cry for inflation is that if prices fall people will stop buying things and the economy will collapse.
https://archive.mishtalk.com/2014/10/19/challenge-to-keynesians-prove-rising-prices-provide-an-overall-economic-benefit/