{"id":193424,"date":"2025-06-18T04:03:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T04:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/193424\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T04:03:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T04:03:11","slug":"g7-embraces-realpolitik-to-work-around-disruptive-trump-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/193424\/","title":{"rendered":"G7 embraces \u2018realpolitik\u2019 to work around disruptive Trump \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British Prime Minister Keir Starmer didn\u2019t pipe up when Trump mistakenly announced he\u2019d finally closed a deal \u201cwith the European Union,\u201d when he meant to say the U.K. When the papers of said deal dropped tragicomically to the ground after Trump opened a folder to show them off, Starmer immediately scooped them up, later joking that because of strict rules on who can get close to the president, \u201cit would not have been good for anybody else to have stepped forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carney, for his part, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/us-donald-trump-no-war-russia-g8-g7-putin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">didn\u2019t immediately contradict Trump<\/a> when he claimed Russia was thrown out of the G8 because of the other leaders&#8217; personal enmity and that the move offended its President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>But with Trump safely back home, Carney was braver at his closing press conference.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was personally offensive, to put it mildly, to the citizens of Ukraine and the inhabitants of Crimea when Russia invaded in 2014, which was the cause of their ejection from the G8,&#8221; Carney said, when asked about Trump&#8217;s G8 comments.<\/p>\n<p>Hope isn&#8217;t lost<\/p>\n<p>Sure, Trump&#8217;s G7 counterparts spent the majority of the summit walking on eggshells \u2014 \u201cthat\u2019s realpolitik,\u201d a German official said with a shrug, noting that Washington\u2019s economic, military and nuclear might left them with little alternative. &#8220;But honestly, I haven\u2019t seen the world ending here, as some reports suggested.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everyone has their own, careful way of navigating&#8221; relations with Trump, a Japanese official noted \u2014 a strategy that allows the G7 to \u201clive to fight another day.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British Prime Minister Keir Starmer didn\u2019t pipe up when Trump mistakenly announced he\u2019d finally closed a deal \u201cwith&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[11783,2106,943,1395,4116,32,34,2000,299,36,39,78927,1824,807,43,2132,2597,2661,332,2663,70634,479,657,15,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-193424","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-antonio-costa","9":"tag-brazil","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-china","12":"tag-cristiano-ronaldo","13":"tag-donald-trump","14":"tag-emmanuel-macron","15":"tag-eu","16":"tag-europe","17":"tag-france","18":"tag-fuels","19":"tag-g8","20":"tag-germany","21":"tag-keir-starmer","22":"tag-macron","23":"tag-mexico","24":"tag-military","25":"tag-oil","26":"tag-russia","27":"tag-sanctions","28":"tag-stefan-boscia","29":"tag-tariffs","30":"tag-ukraine","31":"tag-united-kingdom","32":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114702385444246047","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}