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"On July 16, US President Donald Trump will meet in the Finnish capital Helsinki a triumphant Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has just secured another victory in the Syrian war and obtained the international recognition he wanted from hosting the World Cup."

(Back in the day that World Cup would have been played elsewhere or at a minimum boycoted.

Not in the world we live in today it's not.)

"The Russian president will seek to exploit the growing rift between the United States and the European Union and the intensifying Iranian-Israeli rivalry to achieve his two main goals: Break Russia out of international isolation and become the sole kingmaker in Syria."

"But in pursuing a deal with Trump, Putin poses the biggest threat to the legitimacy of his US counterpart domestically and internationally. The US establishment and intelligence community largely believe that the Kremlin favoured him in the 2016 US presidential race and an investigation into alleged Russian interference is still ongoing."

"At the same time, Trump is confronted with an increasingly disgruntled group of allies who are wary of Russia's aggressive posturing. That he will be meeting Putin right after attending the NATO summit in Brussels and visiting the UK (which has just had a major diplomatic crisis with Moscow), will not please any of them."

Again why?

Why meet then?

Who is pulling the strings here.

Trump wanted them in the G7?

Where is the republician Leadership?

Spineless bastards.

Can you imaging if Obama wanted Russia in the G7 under similar circumstances what the outcry would have been?

"On July 16, President Trump will meet President Putin, but this time around, it seems, the roles have been reversed. The US president is facing a growing legitimacy crisis at home, where he is perceived as "a Russian puppet", while his Russian counterpart has been dealt a powerful hand."

(The fact that is even posted on the web is just dumbfounding to someone my age who has followed things as closely as I have for as long as I have.)

What will Trump and Putin agree on at the Helsinki summit?

winds anybody?

Revelation 7:1

And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.