Vladimir Putin recently made comments on the seriousness of global conflicts that can lead to nuclear conflict. Patriots worldwide should pay close attention as the globalists build their dangerous nuclear arsenal.
In stark contrast to attempts in numerous western countries to stifle free speech online, Russian President Vladimir Putin defended Internet freedom during a conference...
A prominent Swedish lawmaker asserts that Hungarian billionaire George Soros's influence on European politics and policies make him "one of the most dangerous men,"
The Real Clear Politics report claims Mueller's team relied on a 'private contractor for the Democratic National Committee'; reaction from Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz, Republican member of the House Judiciary Committee, and former Watergate prosecutor Jon Sale.
I
had today a stopover at a small provincial town in Northern Finland.
They were having their annual fair. After having enjoyed a fantastic
street stall portion of crispy fried vendace, I strolled around. I then
spotted the official Finnish protestant state church (yep, no separation
of state and church here) had their stall there, too. That prompted me
to ask a question, I long had in mind.
I approached the
representatives of the church and asked why the Finnish state church had
engaged in a propaganda campaign to support the jihadist terrorists of
Aleppo. From 12th to 24th of October 2016 the Finnish churches were
every day ringing their church bells “in support of the victims of
Aleppo bombings” by the Russian and Syrian forces. I asked those people
whether they knew that it was all the other way around and that the
Russians and Syrian government forces were liberating the people of
Aleppo from the brutal rule of the US sponsored terrorists. – They did
not know it.
“The church is engaged in various campaigns from
time to time,” I was told. – That I know, I said, and added that the
most recent campaign was that of being the official sponsor of the
Helsinki Pride sodomite pervert parade. ‘The church wants to live with
the times,” the young church official replied, and continued “that’s why
the church went in there as a business partner of the pride march.” –
BUSINESS PARTNER, I exclaimed. How can the church possibly be a business
partner of anything. What kind of business is this church engaged in?!?
“The church changes with the times,” my interlocutor said as three fat
women colleagues looked on. I was mighty surprised to hear that. I said,
how can the church which supposedly bases its faith in God’s immutable
words change. Are you then saying that the bible isn’t for real? And do
you mean the church was lying 100 years ago, or 50 years ago, when it
professed another opinion on sodomy? Or are you lying today? Which way
do you want to have it, I inquired?
I continued that line of
discussion and then eventually left with the note that I was happy that
so many people are leaving that fake politicized church. Membership used
to be some 90% of the population when I was young, and now it is down
to 60% and sinking.
I am not against sex in any consensual form
between willing adults performed in privacy, but I am against this NWO
globalist campaign of public perversion aimed at breaking down the
fabric of society by means of this devilish campaign.
This
perversion and its sister gender hoax is right up there with the climate
hoax as key means of the globalists to destroy family and national
values in order to break down society and make people more malleable for
one world government rule. Naturally, the population replacement
program by means of mass migration serves the same cause.
So I am still thinking about this Chernobyl special, which somehow
managed to touch a nerve. A lot of people, far from politics, were very
moved by the way it was shot, with coloring reminiscent of Tarkovsky's
Stalker. Grim Soviet reality that somehow looks cool and artsy when shot
through specially tinted lenses. Tarkovsky, apparently, wanted this
look, and had to ostracize a lot of people when he decided to re-shoot
Stalker, because the original tape was defected by his standards.
In any case, the director, Craig Mazin, must be a talented dude. Yet,
the film was obviously more that an artistic project. There must be some
CIA/MI5 money involved. Like they do in all other stupid projects of
theirs, especially when they feel that it is time to counterbalance
Russians. So let's pour money into White Helmets, and all sorts of
propaganda films. But why stop there. If the plight of the free world is
at stake, let's give money to Armstrong, and Pollack, and Faulkner, and
Elton John, and all other important western artists who should promote
western values.
And the artists do take money and keep on doing
their art! Should we condemn them? All these modernists who were on the
CIA take? But if we don't condemn them --these greats of the XX
century --why do we condemn the Soviet artists, who took money from
their government: Shostakovich, and Eisenstein, and Sholokhov and so on?
"Brave" Solzhenitsyn had a nerve to condemn Eisenstein in his
"One day," decrying the "pseudo" genius, who condones violence on the
cue from the tyrant. Implying -- following Pushkin - that a genius --
can't serve evil. But didn't he see the irony? Didn't he imagine
himself a genius, while being on the take from the west, serving the
American imperialism and getting western money in the forms of prizes,
and contracts and all other accouterments? So if you take western
money, you are OK, if you take Soviet money, you are a sell-out? A new
doctrine and strange!
How are we to judge? Should we use this
criteria (where the money are coming from) or should we just convince
out selves, that we are following art?
I think the source of
money is important, yet, it does not really matter to me, where they are
coming from: east or west, communists or capitalists, Arabs or
Zionsists, and so on. What should matter is who is an underdog!
If Craig Mazin, or White Helmets take money from the bullying and
controlling regime, which is ready to kill for the sake of its hegemony,
they are serving the devil. If the money are coming from an underdog,
fighting for its independence or existence, that's a different story.
There is a moral responsibility, but it is unrelated to a story, while
directly related to who is using the story. If the Jews in Polish Ghetto
hired me to tell their story and paid me with gold that they've
collected, it is one thing. If the Nazis hellbent on destroying them,
are paying me with the gold, this gold sucks. And so is the story!
The Russian president claims his country's attitude "to the LGBT community is absolutely calm and unbiased".
Vladimir Putin has responded to criticism from Sir Elton John on the
Russian leader's attitude to LGBT rights by saying the singer is
mistaken.
Sir Elton accused Mr Putin of duplicity after the
president criticised the West for emphasising lesbian, gay, bi-sexual
and trans culture over "traditional family values".
Mr Putin told a news conference: "I deeply respect him, he is a
musical genius and we all love his performance, but I believe he's
mistaken."
Sir Elton and the filmmakers of his biopic Rocketman
have hit out at a Russian distributor's decision to censor scenes from
the new movie featuring gay sex and drug use.
The Russian
president said his country's ban on what he called LGBT "propaganda" was
aimed at protecting children from aggressive proselytising by the LGBT
community.
"Let a person grow up first before making a choice," Mr Putin said. "Let the children in peace."
Dear President Putin,
I was deeply upset when I read your recent interview in the Financial Times.
I
strongly disagree with your view that pursuing policies that embrace
multicultural and sexual diversity are obsolete in our societies. pic.twitter.com/wNG3imaR2r
He claimed: "Our attitude to the LGBT community is absolutely calm and unbiased.
"This part of the community aggressively enforces its point of view on others," he added.
The
music legend said he was "deeply upset" by Mr Putin's interview with
the Financial Times in which the Russian president said liberalism "must
not be allowed to overshadow the culture, traditions and traditional
family values of millions of people".
Addressing Mr Putin directly, Sir Elton wrote on Twitter: "I strongly
disagree with your view that pursuing policies that embrace
multicultural and sexual diversity are obsolete in our societies.
"I find duplicity in your comment that you want LGBT people to 'be happy' and that 'we have no problem in that'.
"Yet
Russian distributors chose to heavily censor my film Rocketman by
removing all references to my finding true happiness through my 25 year
relationship with David and the raising of my two beautiful sons.
"This feels like hypocrisy to me."
Human
rights groups have said Russia's laws targeting the LGBT community have
increased the hostility members face and made it more difficult for
them to seek support.
One part of Russia, the mostly Muslim
republic of Chechnya, saw a crackdown in 2017 during which more than 100
gay men were arrested and subjected to torture, with some of them
killed, according to activists.
Earlier this year, human rights
activists said Chechnya was carrying out a new crackdown in which at
least two people died and about 40 people were detained. Authorities in
Chechnya denied the claims.
The "worst case" trade war scenario was avoided in Osaka on Saturday when Trump agreed to restart trade talks with Xi, holding off new tariffs on Chinese exports, and signaling a pause in the trade hostilities between the world’s two largest economies; Trump added that while existing tariffs would remain in place the
US president eased restrictions on Huawei as part of what is now the
second ceasefire between the two superpowers in two months, removing an
immediate threat looming over the global economy even as a lasting peace
remains elusive.
"We had a very good meeting with President Xi of China, excellent, I
would say excellent, as good as it was going to be," he said. "We
discussed a lot of things and we're right back on track and we'll see
what happens", Trump told reporters after an 80-minute meeting with
Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of a summit of leaders of
the G-20 major economies in Osaka, western Japan.
Trump said while he would not lift existing import tariffs, he would refrain from slapping new levies on an additional $300 billion worth of Chinese goods - which would have effectively extended tariffs to everything China exports to the America.
“We’re holding back on tariffs and they’re going to buy farm products,” he said vaguely at a news conference, without giving any details of China’s future agricultural product purchases. “If
we make a deal, it will be a very historic event.” He gave no timeline
for what he called a complex deal but said he was not in a rush. “I want
to get it right.”
Whereas Trump and top admin officials alleged that Beijing had
reneged on provisions of a tentative trade deal, it was not immediately
clear if Xi agreed to return to previous agreements as part of the new
truce.
Trump, however, did relent on one of the major sticking points, saying U.S. firms would be allowed to sell components to Huawei, the
world’s biggest telecom network gear maker, where there was no national
security problem. The president said the U.S. commerce department would
meet in the next few days on whether to take it off a list of firms
banned from buying components and technology from U.S. companies without
government approval.
"I like our companies selling things to other people, so I allowed
that to happen," Trump said. “We’re talking about equipment where
there’s no great national security problem with it.” In recent months,
the Trump administration has been lobbying allies around the world not
to buy Huawei equipment, which the U.S. says could be used for Chinese
espionage.
Huawei was delighted by the news on its verified Twitter account:
“U-turn? Donald Trump suggests he would allow #Huawei to once again
purchase U.S. technology!”
Predictably, China also welcomed the step. “If the U.S. does what it
says, then of course, we welcome it,” said Wang Xiaolong, the Chinese
foreign ministry’s envoy for G20 affairs.
Trump said he had not yet decided how to allow U.S. companies to
continue selling to Huawei or whether to remove the tech giant from the
Commerce Department’s entity list. He said he would meet with advisors
next week to determine how to proceed.
U.S. microchip makers also applauded the move. “We are encouraged the
talks are restarting and additional tariffs are on hold and we look
forward to getting more detail on the president’s remarks on Huawei,”
John Neuffer, president of the U.S. Semiconductor Association, said in a
statement. Recently, Broadcom warned of a broad slowdown in demand as a
result of Huawei sanctions and slashed its revenue forecast.
And yet, it was not clear how long the exemption would last. Trump
said he had agreed with Xi to wait until the very end of trade talks to
resolve broader issues around Huawei, including Washington’s lobbying
campaign against allies buying its 5G equipment.
“Huawei is a complicated situation,” Trump said. “We’re leaving Huawei toward the end. We’ll see where we go with a trade agreement.”
The concession will likely draw criticism in Washington where
national security hawks have urged Trump not to ease any pressure
against Huawei. The company has long been the target of concern at the
Pentagon and intelligence agencies in part over what the U.S. claims are
its close ties to the Chinese military.
Huawei is one of few potent levers we have to make China play fair on trade.
If President @realDonaldTrump backs off, as it appears he is doing, it will dramatically undercut our ability to change China’s unfair trades practices.https://t.co/rja8CDs2T4
By agreeing to weaken restrictions on #Huawei, Trump not only undermined his own government, he undermined the entire argument #Huawei is a real national security threat. #facepalmhttps://t.co/BzuM8QA0Na
In exchange for his Huawei concession, Trump said Xi Jinping had promised to buy “tremendous” amounts of U.S. agricultural products. “We’re
going to give them a list of things we’d like them to buy,” Trump said
at a news conference following the Group of 20 summit in Osaka, Japan.
However, as Bloomberg notes, the first indications the second fragile
truce will collapse soon is that the Chinese official media reports said
only that the U.S. president hopes China will import more American goods as part of the truce, without an actual confirmation it will do so.
For now, however, the second truce, after a similar ceasefire was
announced on December 1 at the Buenos Aires G-20 summit, has been
achieved, offering relief from a nearly year-long trade standoff in
which the countries have slapped tariffs on billions of dollars of each
other’s imports, disrupting global supply lines, roiling markets and
dragging on global economic growth.
In a lengthy statement on the two-way talks, China’s foreign ministry
quoted Xi as telling Trump he hoped the United States could treat
Chinese companies fairly. On the issues of sovereignty and respect, Xi
said that "China must safeguard its core interests."
“China is sincere about continuing negotiations with the
United States ... but negotiations should be equal and show mutual
respect,” the foreign ministry quoted Xi as saying.
Trump had threatened to extend existing tariffs to almost all Chinese
imports into the United States if the meeting brought no progress on
wide-ranging U.S. demands for reforms.
The return to the negotiating table ends a six-week stalemate that has unnerved companies and investors, and
at least temporarily reduces fears that the world’s two largest
economies are headed into a new cold war, which they still are but only
after the current stalemate ends allowing the S&P to rise above
3,000 in the the meantime. Because, as Bloomberg notes, it’s
unclear how they can overcome differences that led to the collapse of a
previous truce reached at the G-20 in November.
* * *
While Trump and Xi were all smiles at their press briefing, the bad
blood between the two leaders behind the scenes is clearly still there.
Xi spent much of the summit’s first day Friday promising to open up the
Chinese economy, and attacking the U.S. (without naming it) for its
attack on the global trading system. As Bloomberg reported, Xi took a
"not-so-subtle swipe" at Trump’s “America first” trade policy in remarks
to African leaders on Friday, warning against “bullying practices” and
adding that “any attempt to put one’s own interests first and undermine
others’ will not win any popularity.” Xi also called out the U.S. over
Huawei and said the G-20 should uphold the “completeness and vitality of
global supply chains.”
For now, however, there is optimism.
“Returning to negotiations is good news for the business community
and breathes some much needed certainty into a slowly deteriorating
relationship,” said Jacob Parker, a vice-president of China operations
at the U.S.-China Business Council. But "now comes the hard work
of finding consensus on the most difficult issues in the relationship,
but with a commitment from the top we’re hopeful this will put the two
sides on a sustained path to resolution,” he said.
Others were more skeptical, and warned the pause - just like the first ceasefire - will not last.
“Even if a truce happens this weekend, a subsequent breakdown of
talks followed by further escalation still seems likely,” Capital
Economics said in a commentary on Friday, quoted by Reuters.
The United States says China has been stealing American intellectual
property for years, forces U.S. firms to share trade secrets as a
condition for doing business in China, and subsidizes state-owned firms
to dominate industries. Meanwhile, China has said the United States is
making unreasonable demands and must also make concessions.
The talks collapsed in May after Washington accused Beijing of
reneging on reform pledges. Trump raised tariffs to 25% from 10% on $200
billion of Chinese goods, and China retaliated with levies on U.S.
imports.
The U.S.-China feud had cast a pall over the two-day G20 gathering,
with leaders pointing to the threat to global growth. In their
communique, the leaders warned of growing risks to the world economy but
stopped short of denouncing protectionism, calling instead for a free,
fair trade environment after talks some members described as difficult.
* * *
Finally, global markets will breathe a sigh of relief on news of the
resumption in U.S.-China trade talks, even as an official deal remains
elusive, and there is no indication of how the two countries will bridge
the most difficult aspect of a feud that has emerged beyond simple
trade and now affects most aspects of US and Chinese life.
The flip-side is that with trade talks back on, the Fed will feel far
less pressure to ease in July, and since in June stocks exploded higher
on hopes that the Fed will cut rates as much as 50bps next month, such a
reversal in US-China relations could potentially prevent Powell from
capitulating, and leave the Fed on hold, an outcome which would lead to a
sharp drop in US capital markets. Indeed, in recent weeks, the S&P
has returned to record highs, treasury yields have tumbled to their
lowest level in years. The Japanese yen, a traditional beneficiary of
flight to quality, has gained, while the U.S. dollar has slipped across
the board, including against China’s yuan.
A municipality in Southern France called Gallargues-le-Montueux
yesterday SUPPOSEDLY broke the all-time temperature record in France
(for all months). But it turns out – as I expected – that it is a total
fake.
Gallargues-le-Montueux lies in the Occitaine
administrative region of France, the southernmost part of the country.
It is a village of 3,500 people. According to the official readings the
village recorded a peak temperature of 45.7 degrees yesterday. In the
same day Nimes a city of 150 thousand people 25 kilometers northeast
recorded temperatures around 42. Same level was recorded in Montpellier,
a city of 300 thousand, 40 kilometers southwest.
So far, a
convincing story. Yes? But Marseille (850 thousand), one hundred
kilometers southeast, only had around 30 degrees. Same for Barcelona,
350 kilometers south. And Nice, 250 kilometers East, also had only 30
degrees.
Considering that the little bit bigger radius gave
those vastly cooler temperatures, the story sounds fishy. On what kind
of active volcano is the area between Montpellier and Nimes to have such
enormous heat when everything a bit further around is seasonally
normal?
I was monitoring the situation in France, because I had
been alerted about the mainstream media's hysterics about a coming
record heatwave, which did not at all tally with the forecasts I could
check in www.gismeteo.com.
I have several posts on this topic on my wall for the past few days.
Therefore, I was checking the news as they came in. The BBC announced
yesterday (28 June) that France would have record temperatures. The news
was adorned with an image with all France (and most of Western Europe)
painted in red inferno hellfire and with 43 and 45 degrees splashed all
over it. This was incomprehensible in view of what the real weather
forecasts said. And in fact Paris had yesterday only 30-31 at peak.
Something had to explain the volcano heat effect in the Montpellier –
Nimes area and its record breaking Gallargues-le-Montueux. My hunch was
that it was quite hot there, let’s say about 35 degrees. When it is 35
degrees it is not an abnormal summer temperature, but for most people it
will feel really, really hot. So, it will be quite easy to announce
that it was in fact 40, or 42. Which they did for Montpellier and Nimes.
Then you choose a small municipality like Gallargues-le-Montueux and go
on and announce that they made the record. There are so few people
there, and most are pensioners, who are suffering from the heat anyway,
that it will be a piece of cake to say they made the record 45.7. Nobody
will contest that as they felt so hot anyway. (And they will be pleased
to get their village in to the annals of national history). It would
have been different in Montpellier and Nimes with the hundred thousands
of people. Very big chance that too many had been making their own
measurements, so you would just press the real 35 up to 40 – 42, but
stay clear from records. Not to speak about Paris. - And BTW, wouldn't
it stand to reason, that the bigger cities would have a higher
temperature than the small villages?
A friend of mine just sent
me proof positive that this is how it happened. But it was worse yet. My
friend sent me a video from realclimatescience.com who specializes in debunking the climate hoax.
In the video, Tony Heller made some shocking exposures about this
particular hoax. Turns out that the measurements are recorded from a
thermometer on top of a tile roof directly exposed to the sun. The video
has photo proofs, which I copied in the images below. (The photos are
not from the same day, but they show the location of the thermometer).
Heller gives another photo (below) of a thermometer by a highway a
couple of miles off, also directly exposed to the sun. I hope the reader
understands that a thermometer directly exposed to the sun, does not
show the temperature of the air, but the temperature of the heated
thermometer. – I suppose the Montpellier and Nimes readings where
obtained in the same way, and this through globalist secret services
special operations. Operations which could not cover the bigger cities
around: Barcelona, Marseille and Nice, which therefore were spared the
supposed heatwave.
More, being close enough, you can additionally tweak the results, never mind the actual readings.
This was a special propaganda false flag operation, where the Western
propaganda media, foremost the BBC, prepared the ground a couple of days
in advance. Then they delivered the false heat record as explained
above.
This is all done in order to prop up the general climate
hoax, where climate change (formerly known as global warming) is blamed
on human emissions of carbon dioxide released by burning fossil fuels.
And not surprisingly, Greta, the Swedish wunderkind of climate science,
was there right on cue to announce on social media (that is, the PR
team of the Greta trade mark) that this record had been made and that it
is all cause of humans “burning fossil fuels.” Greta TM’s post also
copied below.
Russian President has slammed European leaders for allowing immigrants to “kill, plunder and rape” with impunity.
In an interview with the Financial Times
just ahead of the G20 summit, the Russian leader slammed Western
leaders’ attempt to destroy ‘traditional family values’ and warned that
liberalism was dying: “[Liberals] cannot simply dictate anything to anyone,” Mr Putin told the newspaper.
Putin added that liberalism conflicted with “the interests of the overwhelming majority of the population,” and criticized Chancellor Angela Merkel for allowing millions of refugees to spill into Germany in 2017.
“This liberal idea presupposes that nothing needs to be done.
That migrants can kill, plunder and rape with impunity because their
rights as migrants have to be protected.”
Dailymail.co.uk
reports: He added: ‘Every crime must have its punishment. The liberal
idea has become obsolete. It has come into conflict with the interests
of the overwhelming majority of the population.’
The G20 – the countries with the largest and fastest-growing
economies – are meeting in Osaka, Japan today and tomorrow and posed for
the famous ‘family photo’ of world leaders, including Britain’s Theresa
May, China’s Xi Jinping, Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Salman and their
host, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
The first major meeting was between Donald Trump and the Russia’s
leader where the US President hailed their ‘very, very good
relationship’ with Russia’s leader, adding: ‘It’s a great honour to be
with President Putin’.
An extraordinary moment then followed their handshake as Trump told
Putin: ‘Don’t meddle in the election, please,’ with a smile on his face,
turning to grin at the Russian leader.
In sharp contrast, Mr Putin faced a far frostier head-to-head with a
grim-faced Theresa May as the two shook hands this morning. The Prime
Minister is due to demand he takes responsibility for the nerve agent
poisoning of Sergei Skripal in Salisbury last year and tell him to hand
over the Novichok assassins sent by the Russian state to kill their
former agent.
Mr Putin has reserved special praise for Donald Trump for trying to
stem the flow of migrants and drugs into the US, just before the men met
today.
Vladimir Putin today said British claims that his agents carried
out the Salisbury poisoning are ‘not worth five pounds’ – but justified
attacks on Russian traitors saying: ‘Treason is the gravest crime
possible and must be punished’.
The Russian President will meet Theresa May at the G20 in Russia
today where the Prime Minister will demand he admits to the Novichok
attack and hand over the two spies sent to kill Sergei Skripal last
year.
Mrs May has said her decision to speak to Putin in Osaka is not a
return to ‘business as usual’ with Russia, whose leader today sought to
laugh off claims he ordered the poisoning.
Mr Putin told the Financial Times: ‘Listen, all this fuss about spies
and counterspies, it is not worth serious interstate relations. This
spy story, as we say, it is not worth five kopecks. Or even five pounds,
for that matter’.
But in a chilling admission about how he believes his country should
‘punish’ like Skripal, who was secretly sharing secrets with the
British, he added: ‘Treason is the gravest crime possible and traitors
must be punished. I am not saying that the Salisbury incident is the way
to do it. But traitors must be punished.’
And in admission that he is willing to take risks to protect his
country, he said: ‘He who doesn’t take risks, never drinks Champagne’.
Earlier Putin said Anglo-Russian relations were beginning to improve
ahead of his face-to-face meeting with Theresa May at this weekend’s G20
summit in Osaka, Japan.
Relations have been rocky since the UK pointed the finger at the
Kremlin for the attempted assassination of former Russian spy Sergei
Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury in March last year.
Mr Putin said: ‘I think Russia and UK are both interested in fully
restoring our relations, at least I hope a few preliminary steps will be
made.’
But in a chilling admission about how he believes his country should
‘punish’ people like Skripal, who was secretly sharing secrets with the
British, he added: ‘Treason is the gravest crime possible and traitors
must be punished. I am not saying that the Salisbury incident is the way
to do it. But traitors must be punished.’
And in admission that he is willing to take risks to protect his
country, he said: ‘He who doesn’t take risks, never drinks Champagne’.
Trump’s critics have accused him of being too friendly with Putin and
castigated him for failing to publicly confront the Russian leader in
Helsinki over Moscow’s meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
A U.S. special counsel, Robert Mueller, conducted a two-year
investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election and
whether the Trump campaign colluded with Moscow.
Mueller found that Russia did meddle in the election but that the
Trump campaign did not illegally conspire with Russia to influence the
vote.
In a further attempt to lighten the mood, Trump sought common ground
with Putin at the expense of the journalists who had gathered to catch
the leaders at the outset of their meeting.
‘Get rid of them. Fake news is a great term, isn’t it. You don’t have this problem in Russia but we do,’ Trump said.
World leaders kicked off one of their most high-stakes G20 meetings
in years Friday, with rows brewing over a bruising US-China trade war
and climate change despite a more conciliatory tone from US President
Donald Trump.
After lashing out at friend and foe alike en route to Osaka in
western Japan for the meeting, Trump appeared in a less combative mood
when meeting fellow world leaders face-to-face.
Fresh from describing traditionally close US ally Germany as
‘delinquent’ for not paying enough into the NATO budget, he was effusive
when meeting Chancellor Angela Merkel.
‘She’s a fantastic person, a fantastic woman and I’m glad to have her as a friend,’ he said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin says that liberalism has “outlived its
purpose” and that multiculturalism is “no longer tenable”. In an
interview with the Financial Times, Putin explained what had caused the
rise of the “Trump phenomenon” in the United States as well as the
success of right-wing populist parties throughout Europe.