Bernhard Otterstein, President of the Polish Canadian Chamber of Commerce, emphasized that in today’s world, two powerful players — China and Russia — are missing from the negotiating table that is meant to bring order to the global economy.
This absence symbolizes the divisions in the modern world. At the start of the meeting, President Trump criticized the 2014 decision to exclude Russia from the organization, arguing that if Russia had remained a member, the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 might have been prevented. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine’s Crimea in 2014 led to the country’s exclusion from the organization that same year, which, according to Trump, deeply offended Russian President Vladimir Putin.
