If issued, the invitation would mark the first time Russia has been included in a G7-format meeting since it was expelled from the former G8 following its annexation of Crimea in 2014.

  • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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    9 hours ago

    If you read Macron’s text, he says russia could be including in the margins of the meeting. It’s an observer’s role, he’s not inviting him back into the G8.

    It would he really cool if he arrests him though.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    10 hours ago

    What the fuck is the point of that? Particularly considering that Putin and his inner circle are surely just cackling in the back room at the prospect of the US becoming a real and serious adversary to the EU?