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Do you think Drumpf will invite Putin to G7 @ Doral? (Original Post) Kid Berwyn Oct 2019 OP
Yes Arazi Oct 2019 #1
The ratings would be a record! Kid Berwyn Oct 2019 #2
I think that would cost him other attendees. Merkel, Macron, and Trudeau. SuprstitionAintthWay Oct 2019 #35
Putin wants to weaken our alliances. If Merkel, Macron etc dont show up, it's a win for Putin Arazi Oct 2019 #36
I think he already has, Kid Leghorn21 Oct 2019 #3
It's a thing with him. Kid Berwyn Oct 2019 #5
It's bigly and tremendous "true love", BELIEVE ME Leghorn21 Oct 2019 #12
I KNOW that look. Kid Berwyn Oct 2019 #16
Do bears shit in the forest? TruckFump Oct 2019 #4
Bed Bugged Room with View. Kid Berwyn Oct 2019 #6
Pretty soon, with foreign policy like Syria, the U.S. will be facing sanctions. ooky Oct 2019 #7
A Real Bigly Enemy of the People Kid Berwyn Oct 2019 #18
I believe it has been their plan all along FakeNoose Oct 2019 #8
When the CIA loses its BEST agent in the Kremlin, America has a problem. Kid Berwyn Oct 2019 #19
No doubt that he will. smirkymonkey Oct 2019 #9
Although Putin seems to have a hot spot for Melania. lunatica Oct 2019 #21
Jarvanka in the Future Kid Berwyn Oct 2019 #22
She doesn't belong. smirkymonkey Oct 2019 #24
Naw. They would be stretched and puffy to the maximum with plastic surgery lunatica Oct 2019 #25
Russian winters will do that to you. Patterson Oct 2019 #30
If he is still president by then, he absolutely will. nt tblue37 Oct 2019 #10
That's what I think, too. Kid Berwyn Oct 2019 #27
I am holding out on an even more awkward situation Baitball Blogger Oct 2019 #11
I can see national emergencies keeping all the members home. lunatica Oct 2019 #23
Invite him? Hell, he'll share a bed with Vlad. LastLiberal in PalmSprings Oct 2019 #13
Yes, but it will be the G-2 summit. not_the_one Oct 2019 #14
I think Vlad would decline knowing the US reception that awaits. Sneederbunk Oct 2019 #15
Do you think anything would stop him? lunatica Oct 2019 #17
And if so, will he become his best friend? nt Tommy_Carcetti Oct 2019 #20
OMG. FM123 Oct 2019 #29
Yep. Tommy_Carcetti Oct 2019 #32
I'm sure he'll try...and probably succeed. Wounded Bear Oct 2019 #26
Yes kimbutgar Oct 2019 #28
Of course he will. a kennedy Oct 2019 #31
He'll probably invite Kim, too, just for the hell of it. Vinca Oct 2019 #33
Can a host unilaterally invite a world leader to a conference like this? Poiuyt Oct 2019 #34
35. I think that would cost him other attendees. Merkel, Macron, and Trudeau.
Sat Oct 19, 2019, 08:21 PM
Oct 2019

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)
36. Putin wants to weaken our alliances. If Merkel, Macron etc dont show up, it's a win for Putin
Sun Oct 20, 2019, 02:54 PM
Oct 2019

Either way #Traitor does his masters bidding and they come out on top

ooky

(8,885 posts)
7. Pretty soon, with foreign policy like Syria, the U.S. will be facing sanctions.
Sat Oct 19, 2019, 12:08 PM
Oct 2019

The G7 should become the G6, and tell this traitor to go fuck himself.

Kid Berwyn

(14,650 posts)
18. A Real Bigly Enemy of the People
Sat Oct 19, 2019, 02:08 PM
Oct 2019
Revealed: The highly sensitive Israeli intelligence on Isis that Donald Trump gave away to Russia

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 President’s 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 Russia’s 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

Kid Berwyn

(14,650 posts)
19. When the CIA loses its BEST agent in the Kremlin, America has a problem.
Sat Oct 19, 2019, 02:13 PM
Oct 2019
Exclusive: US extracted top spy from inside Russia in 2017

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)
9. No doubt that he will.
Sat Oct 19, 2019, 12:18 PM
Oct 2019

And Ivanka, of course. It will be a complete shitshow if it is allowed to happen.

Kid Berwyn

(14,650 posts)
22. Jarvanka in the Future
Sat Oct 19, 2019, 02:21 PM
Oct 2019


Excerpt...

She seemed so out of place, but she was making a place for herself, too — post–White House, post–New 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 he’d 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)
24. She doesn't belong.
Sat Oct 19, 2019, 02:27 PM
Oct 2019

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.

Kid Berwyn

(14,650 posts)
27. That's what I think, too.
Sat Oct 19, 2019, 02:34 PM
Oct 2019
White House outlines its G7 agenda

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 summit’s 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

(46,574 posts)
11. I am holding out on an even more awkward situation
Sat Oct 19, 2019, 12:23 PM
Oct 2019

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)
17. Do you think anything would stop him?
Sat Oct 19, 2019, 02:07 PM
Oct 2019

He doesn’t even bother to pretend about his hots for Dick-Tators.

Poiuyt

(18,087 posts)
34. Can a host unilaterally invite a world leader to a conference like this?
Sat Oct 19, 2019, 06:42 PM
Oct 2019

Don't all the member nations need to vote on who is a member of the group?

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