From G8 to G7 to G6+1
NOVANEWS
By Stephen Lendman
Global Research
In March 2014, G8 member states expelled Russia over nonexistent “aggression” in Ukraine, along with Crimea’s reunification with the Russian Federation, correcting a historic mistake.
On Monday, Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said
“this forum has been losing its importance because given the changing political and economic situation, other platforms, such as the G20, where Russia is an active member, have been becoming more important.”
Last April, Kremlin envoy to the EU Vladimir Chizhov said without Russian involvement,
“the G7 is increasingly irrelevant.”
The self-styled seven major industrialized democracies are profoundly undemocratic. The world’s second largest economy, China, certain to become its dominant one, is denied participatio...