You’re not going to be believe this, but Donald Trump is trying to do Russia and Vladimir Putin a favor on the international stage. Shocking, right? But true: On his way to the G7 summit in Quebec, Trump told reporters that he wants Russia back in:
“It may not be politically correct, but we have a world to run. And in the G7, which used to be the G8, they threw Russia out. They should let Russia come back in. Because we should have Russia at the negotiating table.”
The “Group of Seven,” G7 for short, is a collection of the world’s largest economies—the U.S., Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the U.K. Together, they account for about 62% of global wealth, and 46% of the world’s collective GDP. What they do, essentially, is to meet once every year at a “summit” to talk politics and economics, and decide which citizens will be put on death lists for the coming year.
Just kidding on that lasted part. But they’re basically the illuminati, only less secret. And in 1998, Russia was officially invited to join. That last until 2014, when Putin annexed the Crimea peninsula from Ukraine. Canada led the effort to give them the heave-ho, and they haven’t been back since.