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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    Kick the US out. If our democracy survives Trump, you can always readmit us when we have a president who acts in good faith. Otherwise, this shit is only going to get worse…

    • 🅃🅾🅆🅴🄻🅸🄴@lemm.ee
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      Unfortunately it’s likely going to take more than just electing a nice guy for USA to earn back its status as a trustworthy ally. When the country can just go rogue every four years, making threats against allies and backing out of agreements — and half of the country is so nationalist that they applaud it — you can’t really establish a basis of trust.

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        I wish you were wrong.

        I guess I can pray for balkanization and that our further allies take pity on whatever Blue City State I end up being a member of.

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        Precisely this. Once this trust has been lost and the ‘G6’ face a world where they cannot count on the US, geopolicies will change and the US will not be perceived trustworthy anytime soon. As it stands, it will be considered yet another global power with anti-democratic tendencies, policies that endanger world piece and disrupt the common pursuit for prosperity and is considered best kept in check.

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        I’m a US citizen. Please kick us out. The more countries that take concrete action against us that actually hurt us the more likely congress and the voters are to stand up to Trump.

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          If you think any fact will affect the American public, you are much more optimistic than me.

          Republicans will blame Soros, o Pelosi, or AOC and trump will have even more support.

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            That’s assuming they even pay attention to anything international other than Ukraine or Israel (many don’t).

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        By allowing our politicians a seat at the table you’re opening yourself up to more harm.

        Isolate us, make the voting public feel the consequences of their actions. Respond to tariffs with tariffs on red states. Sanction administration official of the inevitable human rights abuses that are coming. Call out the lies of our Government openly and with evidence.

        This isn’t going to change if there are never any consequences for the people who’re doing this as well as their supporters. Revoke the visas of our oligarchs, limit their travel, stop doing business with their companies. Create incentives for educated Americans to immigrate to healthier democracies and ban our social media companies before they finish poisoning your country as well.

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          I am hoping that if the American dollar hyperinflates, Europe will blacklist billionaires and Muskcoin, instead only offering Euros for assets among non-billionaires. That will keep Europe insulated, and maybe allowing it to take a chunk of Red American flesh. They could also allow Blue States to swap dollars for Euros at a favorable rate for them, to rig the restructuring of America in the favor of non-fascists.

          The Euro could become the Dollar of the future.

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          We don’t want educated Americans emmigrating elsewhere. We want you to fix your shit and educated Americans are the only ones that can do that.

          If you leave, the idiots are left in charge of some of the spiciest military hardware and without smart people, will probably end up using it.

          The voting public seem to be pretty susceptible to whatever spin the Orange House puts on the consequences of their actions.

          Do you really believe they’ll see through what Trump does and blame themselves before blaming Canada, for example?

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        Agreed. We earned this. I hope we gain the world’s trust again, but it’ll most likely never be like it was…

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      Yeah, China’s not in even though it’s the second largest economy in the world. In the 90s it almost became G-8 to include Russia, but then Putin screwed that up.

      It’s not all that different of a situation from Russia being kicked out because of Putin’s shenanigans, really.

      Should try to get Brazil to leave BRICS and join the G-7 club. The US could go be in BRICS bullshit (or maybe then it’d be called the USRICS?) with the other authoritarian assholes of the world.