Moscow has said that the Western-dominated group has “lost much of its relevance” as its global economic weight has shrunk
The West should not have expelled Russia from the G8, US President Donald Trump has said, adding that keeping Moscow in the group could have prevented the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022.
Trump made the remarks in a wide-ranging interview with Axios published on Friday, in which the US president reflected on the G7 summit in France and a dinner French President Emmanuel Macron hosted for him at Versailles.
He praised Macron for his hospitality, recalling that he had attended a lot of G7 summits. “And it used to be G8s. They should have kept the G8. You probably wouldn’t have the war with Russia and Ukraine if they did, but [then-US President Barack] Obama didn’t want [Russian President Vladimir] Putin there… They wanted Putin out. It used to be the G8. It would’ve been much better if they kept that that way,” he said.
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