Planet of the Apes President Trying to Push Russia Out of the G-8

Andrew Anglin
Daily Stormer
March 24, 2014

I said this was going to happen.

From NYT:

President Obama planned to urge the leaders of the biggest Western economies on Monday evening to exclude Russia from coming formal talks of the Group of 8, a move that would at least temporarily end Russia’s two-decade participation in the diplomatic forum, White House officials said.

The step was intended as another signal of the West’s condemnation of the annexation of part of Ukraine by President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, and could become part of a series of punishments that might still escalate, American officials said.

As Mr. Obama prepared to convene a hastily called meeting of leaders of the four largest economies in Europe, along with Japan and Canada, American officials hinted strongly that the United States would seek to cancel the coming Group of 8 summit meeting, scheduled for this summer in Sochi, Russia. Officials said the group would discuss whether the remaining countries should still meet — as the Group of 7, without Russia — somewhere else.

“We believe that there’s no reason for the G-7 countries to engage with Russia going forward,” Benjamin J. Rhodes, the president’s deputy national security adviser, told reporters in The Hague.

Other leaders of governments also indicated that Russia’s actions had now left the country on the outside of the group. Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain told reporters at the nuclear security summit meeting here on Monday that “we should be clear there’s not going to be a G-8 summit this year in Russia. That’s absolutely clear.” Chancellor Angela Merkel gave a clear clue that the group might shed Russia in a speech to the German Parliament last Thursday, saying that “so long as the political context” is absent, “then the G-8 no longer exists, either as a summit or as a format.”

Sergey V. Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, shrugged off the reports that the G-8 nations might temporarily suspend Russia from participation in the organization.

Mr. Lavrov, who met with Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday afternoon, shrugged and said “so be it,” telling reporters that the country was not wedded to holding discussions in that forum and could find other ways to participate in international conversations.

Violence didn’t break out over Crimea. But we have already entered a new cold war.