Trump quietly lifts India, Russia, China into new superclub, leaves Europe alone with Ukraine's war?

Donald Trump is exploring a new “Core 5” or “C‑5” leaders’ club that would bring together the U.S., China, Russia, India and Japan as a hard-power alternative to the G7, sidelining Europe and traditional democracy - and wealth‑based groupings. The alleged Trump idea, reflected in draft national security thinking, casts existing forums like the G7 and G20 as inadequate for a multipolar world and instead prioritises deal‑making among major population and military–economic powers, alarming US allies who see it as legitimising “strongmen,” elevating Russia over Europe and potentially weakening Western unity and NATO cohesion.