Responding to his U.S. lackey’s suggestion that Russia be readmitted to the G7, Putin says he’s in a better club anyway, so he don’t need no steenking alliance of Western democracies:
After being ousted from the G-7 (then the G-8) in 2014 for occupying Crimea in Ukraine, Putin joined a Chinese-commanded economic group called the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Putin boasted on Sunday that the new partnership holds more global economic weight than the G-7.
“True, the seven are still richer in per capita income, as they say, but the S.C.O. economies are larger, and their population is much larger, too — half the world’s population,” Mr. Putin told reporters Sunday, according to a transcript of his remarks reviewed by the Times…
Putin said he would be willing to meet with Trump to discuss the G-7 and other matters.
“The President of the United States has repeatedly said that he considers this meeting expedient and I agree that this is indeed the case,” he said, according to the Times.
That last sentence is Putin pointing out Trump’s embarrassing obsequiousness. Trump has indeed repeatedly and pathetically begged for face time with the mob boss who runs an economy that is significantly smaller than California’s, not only because Trump owes his position to Putin but because Trump imagines he can BE Putin when he grows up.
What are the odds Trump reads Putin’s remarks, quits the G7 and humbly petitions for admission to the SCO? Does he tear up all his official papers because he keeps absentmindedly writing “Mrs. Vladimir Putin” and “DJ + VP = 4ever” in the margins?
And every day on Fox News, some GOP butt-plug trots out to announce that Trump has made America respected in the world again, while Trump’s base claps like a troupe of trained seals.
Will there be a sufficient number of American patriots to address this national humiliation and take actions to wipe the smile off Putin’s face? I guess we’ll find out in November.