Trump Reiterates Ukraine War Would Never Have Started If Russia Remained In G8, Blasts Obama This isn't the first time that President Trump has said something like this, but he's newly explained in a wide-ranging fresh interview with Axios published Friday his view that the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine likely would likely have been averted if Russia had remained a member of the then-Group of Eight (G8) . "You probably wouldn't have the war with Russia and Ukraine if they did," Trump to