Canada dropped plans for the Group of Seven to issue a strong statement on the Ukraine war after resistance from the United States, a Canadian official told reporters on the sidelines of a leaders' summit on Tuesday.
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??On Monday, Trump — before leaving the G7 summit to focus on the conflict in the Middle East — said ejecting Putin from the G8 in 2014 was a “mistake,” and suggested Russia wouldn’t have invaded Ukraine if it were still a member of the group??
Canada is levying new sanctions against additional Russian individuals, entities and more than 200 “shadow fleet” vessels, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Tuesday.
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Yet, Iranically, Israel’s preemptively stepping up against Iran will weaken Russia and in turn help Ukraine, so there is that.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov warned on Wednesday that direct U.S. military assistance to Israel could radically destabilise the situation in the Middle East, where an air war between Iran and Israel has raged for six days.
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Carney and world leaders could not persuade Trump, before he left for Washington, to sign on to a joint declaration of support for Ukraine that contained “strong language” exerting pressure on Russia.
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Iranically, at day 620 since Iran’s proxies openly attacked Israel in this latest chapter in the goat rodeo, the only thing proactive and preemptive in Israel’s actions is that they’re the first to do so.
