You have obviously heard snippets about the G7 Summit in Quebec and Trump's tweets this morning insulting Pierre Trudeau, but the facts of what happened at the meeting are frankly horrifying......Trump had a hissy fit for the base and right wing media and this country will pay some price for years to come.....
Paul Krugman tells us what really happened....
For all their pomp, most multilateral summit meetings are boring and of little consequence. I once spoke to a State Department official who had a role in putting these meetings together; he described his job as “policing the nuances,” which gives you an idea about how much is normally at stake.
Occasionally, however, such meetings do have real consequences, good or bad. The 2009 G20 summit, at which nations agreed to provide economic stimulus and loans to troubled countries in the face of the financial crisis, played at least some role in helping the world avoid a full replay of the 1930s. The 2010 summit, by contrast, effectively endorsed a turn to austerity that significantly delayed recovery and, arguably, partially set the stage for the rise of political extremism.
Still, there has never been a disaster like the G7 meeting that just took place
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