Posted on 06/11/2018 2:26:11 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
President Trump's break with American allies at the G-7 Summit was the worst foreign policy outing of his presidency, and the worst summit since they started back in 1975, according to Ian Bremmer, president and founder of the Eurasia Group. Bremmer called Mr. Trump's performance "the geopolitical equivalent of the Comey firing."
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the president's reversal "via tweet" from signing onto the G-7 statement was "sobering and a bit depressing."
On "CBS This Morning" Monday, Bremmer, said, "It was Trump unable to control his emotional impulses in doing something that I am sure felt very satisfying at the time. He was forced to go, he didn't want to attend the summit, his advisors all said, 'You have to be there.' He shows up late, he leaves early, he cancels his direct meeting with [French President] Macron. The entire time he's seething, bristling and petulant, but he's on good behavior. Finally he leaves, and he says, 'That's it, I'm going to blow it up.'"
"I'm sure that sending that [tweet] out against Trudeau, America's closest ally, felt really good at the time," Bremmer said. But the result is, "It really damages an important long-term relationship."
Will the spat do lasting damage to the Western alliance?
"They're not going to form a G-6, they're not unified, they have no ability to get together on other issues – the Europeans, the Japanese, the Canadians. No. But they don't trust America," Bremmer said. "Trump said that the relationship with the allies was a 10. Maybe out of 100? But the reality is, the relationship with the United States is reasonably uncertain right now. The individual relationship with Trump and those allies is as bad as it could be. It's close to a zero."
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Just like the reaction to Reagan at Reykjavik.
Which was the beginning of the end for the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Empire.
Pfffht.
Clearly the members of G7 miss the free sex the last three Presidents gave them.
I have a number of Canuck buddies and they're opinions do NOT alighn with Trudeau.
“Comey firing”... you mean that thing that all the democrats were demanding, because they blamed Comey for HIllary’s humiliating defeat, but then as soon as Trump fired him they acted all shocked and outraged and demanded that Trump be impeached for firing him? Is that the “Comey firing” he’s referring to?
Justin Trudeau’s performance at the G7 made himself a laughing stock on the international stage. It will be hard to overcome that.
In a sense they are correct. In both cases it is a decided tact away from the globalist/deep state agenda and corrupted influence.
Yeah, this guy’s just full of it.
Without reading the article it is hard to tell from the headline whether Trump is being maligned or praised.
From inside Canada, it looks like Trudeau is spinning this out to try to escape from steadily declining public approval in recent months. He was in a losing position a month ago. This will probably help him as there is very little support for Trump in Canada. Maybe they really are buddies and Justin begged him to give him a public ass-kicking. Same with Merkel. Anti-Americanism is the easiest way for any politician to get into power then stay in power, all you have to do is mouth off once a year and get the media to do the rest. As for the substance of the matter, if there is any, just a dog and pony show, all the real negotiations take place in boring meetings that nobody ever hears about.
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