it's such a simple common sense
don't join a group if it will always hold an N-1 meeting without u.
good japan strongly opposes inviting china to G8. otherwise who knows china could have made the same stupid decision.
now g7 talks about expelling russia, some even talks about G20 also, jesus, i would like to see how they achieve that in g20.
if west keep talikg about this g8 explusion thing, if i were putin, i would preempt with announcement of voluntarily withdrawing, simpyl say nowadays world g20 is enough, who needs g7