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21.06.26 - 04:03
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Trump Reiterates Ukraine War Would Never Have Started If Russia Remained In G8, Blasts Obama (ZeroHedge)
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Trump Reiterates Ukraine War Would Never Have Started If Russia Remained In G8, Blasts Obama
This isn't the first time that President Trump has said something like this, but he's newly explained in a wide-ranging fresh interview with Axios published Friday his view that the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine likely would likely have been averted if Russia had remained a member of the then-Group of Eight (G8).
"You probably wouldn't have the war with Russia and Ukraine if they did," Trump told the publication, referring to the decision to expel Moscow, making the group the G7.
The forum "would have been much better" had it maintained its original structure, with Russia included. He laid ultimate blame in the fresh remarks on former President Barack Obama.
It was during the Obama administration, in 2014, that Washington pushed allies to expel Russia from the group of leading economies over its takeover of Crimea through a 'popular referendum'.
Trump this week atten...
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