Julian Borger, The Guardian: G7 summit: last rites of old order as Trump's theater looms next year
Leaders put on a show of common endeavor with awareness that meeting could be a lot worse next year when Trump will be circus master
If next year’s G7 summit turns out to be a branding event at a Trump golf resort in Florida, with Vladimir Putin as de-facto co-chair, the old guard among America’s allies will look back on this year’s meeting in Biarritz with some nostalgia.
Not much was achieved, truth be told, but that is nothing new. To avoid the embarrassment of the previous year in Quebec – when Trump disowned the carefully-crafted joint communiqué soon after boarding Air Force One – Emmanuel Macron, the host in Biarritz, had the wheeze of doing away with the traditional statement altogether. If there was no document, there was nothing to refuse to sign.
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Commentaries, Analysis, and Editorials -- August 26, 2019
Where Trump failed, Macron may have succeeded -- Samantha Vinograd, CNN
A tale of two alphas: Trump, Macron and the rocky road to rapprochement -- France 24
Macron G-7 gamble points to ‘roadmap’ out of US-Iran morass -- Lori Hinnant, Sylvie Corbet, and Zeke Miller, AP
The Amazon is burning: What you need to know -- David Child, Al Jazeera
Why Israel bombed Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon this weekend -- Tom Rogan, Washington Examiner
Why Hezbollah is now focused on Lebanon's domestic politics -- Paul Khalifeh, Middle East Eye
A Japan-South Korea Dispute Hundreds of Years in the Making -- National Interest
Inaction on China and India's crimes emboldens Myanmar -- Maung Zarni, Al Jazeera
Foreign aid is a hindrance to Rohingya repatriation -- Khaled Muhiuddin, DW
Young Afghan women barely remember Taliban but fear a return -- Cara Anna, AP
DRC: Is President Tshisekedi a puppet of Kabila? -- Chrispin Mwakideu, DW
Trump talks trade peace, but there’s no deal in sight -- David Goldman, Asia Times
China’s Playbook in Hong Kong Is Also Working in the Asia-Pacific -- Chris Horton, The Atlantic
The future for President Trump and America rests with China trade war -- Dan Mahaffee, The Hill
Trump’s bid to buy Greenland shows that the ‘scramble for the Arctic’ is truly upon us -- Simon Tisdall, The Guardian
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Source: Report: Trump Went to the Mat for Putin at the G-7 Summit
All through the 60s and 70s, liberals and Euro-trash were talk to the Russians (Detente). We're scared if you do not talk to the Russians. "You don't palaver with the Russians enough.
Now they complain that Trump wants to talk to the Russians.
Crimea upsets the trash? I think it upsets them because they ignored the 'civil' war fostered by Putin, but they cannot ignore Crimea. Their sinecure job is at risk. All they wanted to do was hand out candy and welfare, but Crimea starkly shows the real world.
All the antecedents to Crimea happened under the Hillary reset and the Obama reign.
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Trump Went to the Mat for Putin at the G-7 Summit: Report by Don B. Ass
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