This is astonishing. Mike Pompeo says that deterrence of Russia should have begun long ago. Indeed he is right: Deterrence should have begun during the Trump administration, when Pompeo was Secretary of State. Where was he all that time? foxnews.com/opinion/russia…
remember this photograph? Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, laughing it up in the Oval office with Trump washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
@anneapplebaum @nancybirm Working for a buffoon who said Putin would never invade Ukraine when Putin had already done so. Exhibit:
@anneapplebaum @nancybirm Working for a buffoon who said Putin would never invade Ukraine when Putin had already done so. Exhibit:
@anneapplebaum You mean there might be some former guy who bears some responsibility here??
@anneapplebaum Right, even during the secret meetings Trump-Putin without translators. With anti-US intelligence conclusions from the US president, while the KGB VVP was smiling ...
@anneapplebaum Block Russian banks from SWIFT. Do it today, and tell Putin if he pulls troops back from the Ukrainian border, he can come back into SWIFT. Otherwise, he will view every threat as empty. The only thing Putin will respond to is action. Talk does nothing.
@anneapplebaum @Revlov3 Where was he? He was cutting himself a deal With Russia for after trump's coup d'etat in January..
@anneapplebaum This goes beyond electoral cycles. Since that famous NATO Summit held in Bucharest (2008), America invested thousands of billions in Irak and Afghanistan, while leaving many Eastern European countries (including Ukraine) exposed to Putin’s false propaganda.