How so? Right now Russia is Putin. Putin wields all of the power. It is an autocratic kleptocracy… basically a mafia state.
So how is having reservations about rewarding the head of that State on an international stage for actively suppressing and poisoning opposition and dissent to his rule “small thinking?”
China through hiding the truth and protecting travel within China while spreading it throughout the world gave us a world pandemic that will kill over a million people, and Democrats are all upset because they are afraid that Putin will keep up tweeting and trying to buy facebook ads.
Because you think inclusion to the G7 as a “reward”. Little heads up, Russia was included in the G7, only back then (when they were a part of it) it was known as the G8. They were not invited back after that Crimea kerfuffle. Maybe it’s time to get them back in the room and get a peek at what’s going on inside their borders rather than what the RT news agency has to say.
Question: you are aware that the G7 is an informal meet & greet brainstorming conference right? There are no treaties or legally binding agreements that come out of these things.
Actually, I’m rather suspicious of the claim that Russia keeps on secretly poisoning people with chemicals that the press says are peculiarly Russian. That’s like deliberately leaving your finger prints at a crime scene. To me it looks more like a false flag designed to demonise Russia via the press and slow down any cooperation between Russia and the US in dealing with China and Iran and the imminent Turkish khaliphate.