Summary

Trump is pushing for softer language on Russia’s war in Ukraine, straining G7 unity.

Officials say the U.S. is blocking references to “Russian aggression” and prefers calling it the “Ukraine conflict.”

This shift follows Trump’s peace talks with Putin that excluded Ukraine’s President Zelensky, whom Trump later called a “dictator.”

The change in rhetoric contrasts with Biden-era support for Ukraine and threatens a unified G7 stance.

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      14 days ago

      Coming from a country with ranked voting and more than 2 parties, this looks so ridiculous. It’s like the USA electoral system is designed to make people bicker amongst themselves about who is the lesser evil, while oligarchs take control.

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        Veritasium, on yt ( not a guy I recommend frequently ) has a vid on election-systems.

        Approval-disapproval seems to be the sanest electing-system there is…

        All the ranked-choice-systems logically have problems, though no-where near as bad as 1st-past-the-post idiocy.

        Please, people, if you’re interested in the sanest voting-system possible, watch that video, & then organize to replace your system with the currently-best-option, which seems, from that vid, to be the approval/disapproval system.

        ( it makes the most-approved person win, and one can approve-of multiple different candidates, so the majority-of-voters get heard, no-matter-what, see? )

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    Kick us out, Trump is not in the G7 to do anything but fuck it up. Being a self interested stakeholder is normal but he’s not self interested. He is clearly under Putin’s influence.

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    I’d love to ask all of the MAGA heads to just question themselves this: Why go through all of this just to help Putin. Some fucked up shit must go on that Trump risks all of this just for Putin.

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    Blow it apart. America doesn’t belong with its former Allies.

    Its clear that America has no interest in being apart of the free world, they checked out.

    Now fuck off and go destroy yourselves in a frenzy over transgender bathroom doors and eggs. The rest of us still have lives to live and futures to protect.

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    The fuck is G7 anyway, but the face of global capitalism?

    Just doublechecking my premises, there’s this from Investopedia:

    The Group of Seven is an intergovernmental organization made up of the world’s largest developed economies: France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. Government leaders of these countries meet periodically to address international economic and monetary issues, with each member taking over the presidency on a rotating basis…

    Yeah, fuck 'em, but all is forgiven if G7 has the balls to expel America.

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    14 days ago

    G7/G6/G8.

    Who cares it’s a eurocentric club anyway.

    G20 is the real global conference.

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    That’s some “are we the commies now” moment. Not really unexpected, but so much more blatent than I expected. It has all the subtlety and nuance of a wrecking ball covered with napalm hitting a fireworks warehouse.

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      Party-fascism & individual-faschism are both fundamentally the same, in their hatred-of-civil-rights, hatred-of-accountability, hatred-of-integrity, hatred-of-responsibility, etc…

      The CCP’s as fascist with China as Putin is with Russia: it’s just individual-vs-group fascism, no other difference, fundamentally…

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    According to Alnur Mussayev, 6th Directorate of the KGB in Moscow, Don was recruited by the KGB in 1987 and given the codename Krasnov.

    Drop the USA and change the metting to the G6 + California until Jan 2029.