< p > Trump: Russia is still in G8, and there might not be a war now < / p > < p > On June 16, Trump said that former US President Barack Obama and former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau insisted on expelling Russia from G8 after Russia's annexation of Crimea. "I think it was a mistake because if Russia were still in the group, there might not be a war now. If I had been president four years ago, there would not have been this war either, but things didn't turn out that way." He indicated that the West now spends a lot of effort discussing Russia but has already "excluded it from the negotiation table". < / p > < p > Trump has repeatedly claimed that expelling Russia was a "wrong decision" and insisted that it should be allowed to return to G7, restoring the "Group of Eight" mechanism. < / p > < p > Russia was expelled from G8 in June 2014 due to the Crimea incident. At that time, leaders of the other seven countries (the US, Canada, the UK, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan) refused to attend the summit originally planned to be held in Sochi. < / p > < p > < img src = "//p3-sign.toutiaoimg.com/tos-cn-i-ezhpy3drpa/1a0b33365a964204ad674dbcb2064324~tplv-obj:1920:1081.image?_iz=97245&bid=15&from=post&gid=1835125387187738&lk3s=06827d14&x-expires=1757894400&x-signature=JcxDoaIqnf8YxxWo0jOVrwNvPBY%3D" / > < / p > < p > Original article: https://www.toutiao.com/article/1835125387187738/ < / p > < p > Statement: The article only represents the author's personal views. < / p >