Subservience to Putin on display
By Jennifer Rubin
Opinion writer
August 27
... “As the leaders discussed issues like Iran and fires in the Amazon rainforest, Trump interjected and asked why Russia should not be included in the talks, given its size and role in global affairs. That met sharp resistance from some of the leaders, principally German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.” Not surprisingly, they argued that Russia got kicked out of the Group of Eight for invading Ukraine. “The dispute amounted to one of the most heated moments of this weekend’s G7,” CNN reports.
Trump’s crackpot theory that President Barack Obama being “outsmarted” was the precipitating factor of the Russian invasion in 2014 was rejected by the G-7′s reality-based members ...
Why would an American president press so strongly on behalf of an adversary of the United States, and to the detriment of our relations with allies? Everyone has a theory but, whatever the cause, we have a president who repeatedly puts other countries first ...
As for the presidential candidates, it might be a good idea to start calling out Trump as a weakling for dictators ...
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