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White House says U.S. not inviting Russia to G7
reuters.com ^ | FEBRUARY 19, 2021 | Reuters Staff

Posted on 02/20/2021 8:38:55 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) - The Biden administration is not inviting Russia to join the G7 group of world leaders, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said on Friday, backing away from former President Donald Trump’s push for Moscow’s membership.

Any invitation for Russia to join the G7 would be made in partnership with all of the group’s members, she told reporters, speaking aboard Air Force One.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Russia
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1 posted on 02/20/2021 8:38:55 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Joe’s gotta do what Xi orders...


2 posted on 02/20/2021 8:40:27 PM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Russia has the 11th largest GDP.

That would not be in the top 7 economies.


3 posted on 02/20/2021 8:46:25 PM PST by Meatspace
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To: Meatspace

It’s also important for the panda huggers to drive a wedge between the United States and Russia so we’ll be forced closer to China. they think we can’t be can’t be enemies of both the other superpowers. I think we can though. And if it was a bad idea, OFW.


4 posted on 02/20/2021 8:50:26 PM PST by RC one (When a bunch of commies start telling you that you don't need an AR15, you really need an AR15)
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To: RC one

So its Cold War II and Russia is the old/new big baddie . . . UFB!


5 posted on 02/20/2021 8:53:50 PM PST by 100%FEDUP (I'm seeing RED!)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
This, after all the progress made with Putin?


6 posted on 02/20/2021 8:53:58 PM PST by C210N (You can trust government or you can understand history. But you CANNOT do both.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

If the G7 were based on largest economies it would include

United States. GDP: $19.48 trillion. ...
China. GDP: $12.23 trillion. ...
Japan. GDP: $4.87 trillion. ...
Germany. GDP: $3.69 trillion. ...
India. GDP: $2.65 trillion. ...
United Kingdom. GDP: $2.63 trillion. ...
France. GDP: $2.58 trillion

As it is now you have Canada and Italy in G7 but not India.


7 posted on 02/20/2021 8:55:20 PM PST by plain talk
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To: 100%FEDUP

and, all the while, we’re stuck in bed with the dog eating, virus releasing, ChiCom savages. I don’t think our landfills can take much more of their crap.


8 posted on 02/20/2021 8:57:29 PM PST by RC one (When a bunch of commies start telling you that you don't need an AR15, you really need an AR15)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

These idiots are going to drive Putin deeper into what ever
camp treats him better than the U. S.

We don’t have to kiss his a.., but it’s just ignorant to
alienate the guy without need.

Don’t try using the line that he’s not a good guy. Who is
these days?

I’m surprised they haven’t given Kim an ultimatum by now.
They must want to drive him back to being dangerous at once.

And Iran, lets get a tri-fecta going.


9 posted on 02/20/2021 9:04:35 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The Republican Party is dead. Long live the Founders Party.)
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To: lightman; ETL

Ahhhhhh Free Republic Putin Communism socialism.
Our Socialism nationalism is better than they’re communism
Who’s laughing? Putin is! Who owns China? Russia!!!
My god will you open your eyes and realize that the CCP is under control by the Russians, this whole Russia/China are enemies the whole CCP is the largest threat is a psyop by Russian intelligence just like in WWII when they’re were pulling of the strings of Allies, the Axis alliances.
Yeah Chicoms are bad very bad but they’re not real external threat the Russians are they always have and always will be.


10 posted on 02/20/2021 9:04:50 PM PST by StoneWall Brigade
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To: Berlin_Freeper

In recent years I’ve wondered why the Democrats are so afraid of Russia and anxious to demonize that nation...


11 posted on 02/20/2021 9:06:00 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

It’s just part of the deception. In reality, they are in cahoots with the Russians, and the ChiComs.


13 posted on 02/20/2021 9:17:42 PM PST by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! DEMOCRAT-Russia collusion!! China-Russia collusion! Click ETL...)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

We’re reaching out to Iran but we’re pushing Russia away?


14 posted on 02/20/2021 9:18:11 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: Berlin_Freeper

The ‘80s called, Joe. They want their foreign policy back!


15 posted on 02/20/2021 9:20:10 PM PST by TigersEye (Will the Younger Dryas Impact you? )
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To: StoneWall Brigade; All
"RUSSIA COLLUSION" (written by myself, based on what I dug up and my own prior knowledge)

The 'Trump-Russia collusion' story was of course a hoax, a COVER, to hide what THEY (the notoriously traitorous Democrats) were doing, as the only evidence for Russia collusion involves THEM!

1) Newly unclassified docs reportedly state (surprise-surprise) Russians actually wanted HILLARY to win, not Trump! Obama CIA chief Brennan hid the evidence!!

2) Top Putin aids (Vladislav Surkov and Vyacheslav Trubnikov) provided disinformation (fake 'dirt') on Trump! (via RUSSIAN AGENT Igor Danchenko) for Clinton campaign/DNC paid-for Steele dossier!!

3) Obama-Biden DENIED desperately requested military assistance to Ukraine
...during the 2014 Russia invasion of Crimea!! At the time (2014) Trump had sharply and publicly (on NBC's Today Show, and elsewhere) criticized the Obama administraion, asserting that "Putin has eaten Obama's lunch" once again.

4) $3.5 MILLION from the wife of a former mayor of Moscow! (Elena Baturina) The former mayor of Moscow (Yuri Luzhkov) was a strong advocate for Russia invading and taking over Crimea. The $3.5 million reportedly passed hands within WEEKS of the Russia invasion of Crimea! (Feb-Mar 2014). Obama admin did nothing but provide them food rations and blankets! They had begged him for military equiptment.

5) Burisma owner (Mykola Zlochevsky) was/is a RUSSIA ALLY! Joe Biden's son worked for and brought in millions from Burisma. Joe is ON VIDEO BRAGGING about extorting the Ukrainians into firing the prosecutor who was investigating his son and the corrupt RUSSIA-ALLIED owner of the company. Zlochevsky was an official of the former 'puppet' regime that Putin had installed in the Ukraine via a rigged election. Viktor Yanukovych, the 'puppet' president of that regime's pro-American opponent in the election (Viktor Yushchenko) barely survived an assassination attempt by poisoning. His face was left badly pock-mocked for a long time afterward. Putin is widely believed to be responsible.

6) For 8 years the Obama-Biden-Clinton admin immensely HELPED the Russians, via Obama's promised and delivered "flexibility" on missile defense, the Russia-favoring New Start nuke treaty, the Putin-loving Iran deal (Iran and Syria are pawns of Russia in the oil/gas-rich Middle East), the Uranium-One deal, where Obama-Hillary allowed Russia to take ownership of 20% of our uranium production!

7) They (Obama-Biden) deliberately slashed OUR military to pieces. Fortunately, Trump has/had since brought it back times 10.

16 posted on 02/20/2021 9:20:50 PM PST by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! DEMOCRAT-Russia collusion!! China-Russia collusion! Click ETL...)
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To: lightman
Xi's little puppet boy dances to his master's tune...


17 posted on 02/20/2021 9:20:57 PM PST by kiryandil (New Movie: The Assassination Of Ashli Babbitt By The Anonymous Coward)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

China wants Russia in it’s grip.
So any Western influence on Russia is verboten!


18 posted on 02/20/2021 9:22:24 PM PST by mrsmith (US MEDIA: " Every 'White' cop is a criminal! And all the 'non-white' criminals saints!")
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To: All

"...the Clinton campaign, and ultimately the Obama administration, colluded with Russians for the purpose of accusing Donald Trump of . . . yes . . . colluding with Russians."

--Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, Sept 26, 2020
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Steele's Dossier Source Was a Suspected Russian Spy

Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, Sept 26, 2020

In an effort to depict Donald Trump as if he were in an espionage conspiracy with the Kremlin, the Obama administration used bogus information, from a man the FBI suspected was an actual Russian spy.

It turns out that Igor Danchenko, the man the FBI suspected of being an actual Russian spy, initially provided the bogus information about the American, Carter Page, through a former British spy, Christopher Steele.

Through a couple of cut-outs, Steele had been retained by the Clinton campaign to dig up -- or, alas, to make up -- Russian dirt on Trump. Through his private intelligence business in London, Steele was known to be working for Russian oligarchs, while Danchenko was on Steele's payroll.

That is, the Clinton campaign, and ultimately the Obama administration, colluded with Russians for the purpose of accusing Donald Trump of . . . yes . . . colluding with Russians."

--Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, Sept 26, 2020
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CIA told Obama of claim Hillary Clinton conjured Trump-Russia scandal

by Steven Nelson, New York Post, Sept 29, 2020

Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe on Tuesday revealed a bombshell allegation that Hillary Clinton ordered "a campaign plan to stir up a scandal" by linking President Trump to Russia in 2016 -- and that then-President Barack Obama knew about her possible role.

Ratcliffe disclosed the information in a letter published by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) just hours before Trump debates Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, who was vice president at the time.

Clinton's alleged July 2016 plot would tar Trump by "tying him to [Russian President Vladimir] Putin and the Russians' hacking of the Democratic National Committee," Ratcliffe wrote Graham, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Handwritten notes by then-CIA Director John Brennan, who now is a fiery anti-Trump commentator, say that Brennan briefed Obama on "alleged approval by Hillary Clinton on July 26, 2016 of a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisors to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by Russian security services." ..."
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[Obama] CIA Chief Brennan hid intel saying Russia wanted Hillary win in 2016

May 13, 2020 - Ryan Morgan

Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell is working to declassify documents relating to the investigations of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and, according to Fox News' Ed Henry, some of those declassified documents will actually show a Russian effort to benefit Hillary Clinton during the election, not Donald Trump.

Henry told Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Tuesday's "Tucker Carlson Tonight" that four or five new batches of intelligence are being declassified, one of which contains an assessment that Brennan sought to suppress, showing that Russia wanted Clinton to win. ...”

"Remember the U.S. intel community came out with that remarkable statement, an assessment that Russia meddled in the 2016 election, and most importantly the intel report claimed that Russia interfered because they wanted Donald Trump to win," Henry said. That of course followed the narrative of the now-discredited Steele Dossier.

Well, it turns out Obama’s CIA chief, John Brennan also had intel saying "actually Russia wanted Hillary Clinton to win because she was a known quantity, she had been secretary of state, and Vladimir Putin’s team thought she was more malleable..."

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Rep. Devin Nunes (R-California), Ranking Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, on Robert Mueller's May 29, 2019 press conference:

Nunes: "Well, he [Mueller] should have been gone after day two.

He has no Russians, except for the Fusion and Clinton Russians, and possibly the dirty cop, the FBI's Russians, those are the only Russians that he has, to show “connections” to the Trump campaign.

Clearly, the Clinton operation is heavily working with Russians or Russian disinformation. He didn’t take time to look into any of that"
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Senator Lindsey Graham (R)
Chairman, Senate Judiciary Committee

July 27, 2020:

He [Igor Danchenko, working for Christopher Steele] calls up a bunch of people in Russia.

Who do you think this information came from?

It came from the Russian intelligence service."
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Re: ((Vladislav Surkov))

"On October 11, 2016, [Christopher] Steele was interviewed in Washington by [Hillary-Obama] State Department official Kathleen Kavalec.

In that interview, he [Steele] identified two of his insider Kremlin sources as Vladislav Surkov and Vyasheslov Trubnikov.”

Surkov has spent over a decade moving up in the regime. In 2013, he became Putin's personal adviser, particularly on Georgia and Ukraine, where Putin has since made major territorial annexations.

Kremlin-wise, Surkov is top-echelon; he's sometimes referred to as "Putin's Rasputin."

Trubnikov is a longtime regime eminence who ran the SVR (Russia external intelligence service, analogous to the CIA) before Putin came to power. Since then, he has continued to be an insider, while moving on to critical positions...”

--Andrew McCarthy, National Review, May 29, 2019
Article: Was Brennan's 'Intelligence Bombshell' the Steele Dossier?
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Below, via the FOIA, Obama-Hillary State Dept official Kathleen Kavalec's own personal notes from her interview with Christopher Steele, naming top-level Putin aide Vladislav Surkov and Vyasheslov Trubnikov as Hillary/DNC paid-for Steele dossier sources!





CU FOIA [Freedom of Information Act] Document Release — Kavalec Memo & Related Records:
https://www.scribd.com/document/409446360/CU-FOIA-Document-Release-Kavalec-Memo-Related-Records
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Re: Vladislav Surkov:

"Foreign politicians talk about Russia's interference in elections and referendums around the world. In fact, the matter is even more serious: Russia interferes in your brains, we change your conscience, and there is nothing you can do about it."

—Vladislav Surkov, personal aide to Vladimir Putin
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Re: Top-level Putin aide Vladislav Surkov (DEMOCRAT-Russia collusion)

"She [HILLARY CLINTON] launched the [Russia] 'reset' policy after the murders of Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian intelligence agent who had been granted asylum in Britain, and Anna Politkovskaya, Russia's leading investigative journalist.

In both cases, the regime of Vladimir Putin was directly implicated. [both were poisoned]

Instead of trying seriously to deter Russian aggression, which in Ukraine so far has claimed more than 10,000 lives, the Obama administration in 2009 created the McFaul-Surkov commission.

Michael McFaul, Mr. Obama's chief adviser on Russia, was tasked with building civil society alongside Vladislav Surkov, a Kremlin aide responsible for suppressing it. ..."

— David Satter - Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute
Wall Street Journal, June 12, 2017

19 posted on 02/20/2021 9:22:33 PM PST by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! DEMOCRAT-Russia collusion!! China-Russia collusion! Click ETL...)
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To: Meatspace

All Russia has to do to re-order that list is shut off the gas pipeline...


20 posted on 02/20/2021 9:22:54 PM PST by kiryandil (New Movie: The Assassination Of Ashli Babbitt By The Anonymous Coward)
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