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Sunday, June 10th, 2018

Trump plunges West into crisis over summit spat

Author:     Stephen Collinson
Source:     CNN
Publication Date:     4:04 PM ET, Sat June 9, 2018
 Link: Trump plunges West into crisis over summit spat
Stephan:   If you are less than 100 years old you have lived your entire life under a very carefully crafted system of international relationships. It began during the First World War, and really came to form after the Second World War. It's far from perfect but as human treaty networks go over the course of history, it has worked pretty well. We are watching it now come unravelled because of a man who, if he is not a Russian agent, might as well be, because he has been protecting and advancing the geopolitical goals of Vladimir Putin since the day he was sworn into office. Indeed, that's how got into office. And here's the important thing: 87% of Republicans support him. We have a fifth column in the United States either through ignorance, stupidity, racism, or fear, that did vote, and is prepared to vote again for Donald Trump. I don't think the Democratic Party is competent to thwart what is happening; this gets down to the citizen level. The only effective response to stop this is overwhelming vote against the Republican Party. They must be cleaned out of government, and men and women committed to wellbeing ahead of profit must be elected.

The G 7 Meeting

President Donald Trump said Saturday that his relationships with other Western leaders are perfect, but an acrimonious end to the G7 summit showed how the transatlantic alliance has never been so split.

A fragile show of unity at the meeting in Quebec was blown apart, with the group’s most powerful member, the United States, isolated from the rest of the world’s most industrialized democracies after Trump pulled support for a common communique blaming what he said were “false statements” by Canada’s leader.
“PM Justin Trudeau of Canada acted so meek and mild during our @G7 meetings only to give a news conference after I left saying that, ‘US Tariffs were kind of insulting’ and he ‘will not be pushed around.’ Very dishonest & weak. Our Tariffs are in response to his of 270% on dairy!’ Trump tweeted from Air Force One — hours after he left the summit for Singapore.
Trump had earlier angrily hit back at suggestions that he had thrown the […]

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3 Comments

  1. John Gabriel Otvos on Sunday, June 10, 2018 at 10:57 am

    Stephan, the image you’ve posted for this article says it all. Donald Duck must have centre stage, no matter what. How few Americans are cognizant of *the fact*, (not fake . . .hahaha) that Canada and the US are each other’s largest trading partners.

  2. John Gabriel Otvos on Sunday, June 10, 2018 at 11:02 am

    Another comment from me is towards the dairy industry. Canada will not allow Bovine Growth Hormone in our national dairy supply for consumers. The US under the Trump administration is acting like a bully. Their industries are much larger than ours, so there must be protective tariffs in any trade negotiations to protect our industrial producers. Of course, it goes without saying, that people should not be drinking cow’s milk or its byproducts anyway. hahaha

  3. gf on Monday, June 11, 2018 at 7:27 am

    Not only is the Democratic party not competent to fight this they are actively thwarting the people who would fight this by doing everything in their power to defeat actual progressives all across the country. They are complicit in all of this and will do anything in there power to avoid addressing class.

    This whole thing revolves around class and the dems do not want to lose the support of the wealthy so they must continue on this path. Full stop they are corrupt to the core.