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…
If Pompeo had been helping Ukraine plan for a Russian invasion (instead of sitting by passively while Trump threatened the US ambassador and tried to blackmail Ukraine's president) we would all be in a different place right now
@anneapplebaum Russian-press-only meeting in the Oval where Trump revealed code word security information (obtained by the Israelis) to the Russian PM and Ambassador.
@anneapplebaum With no one else in the room except the Russian camera man. Yes, I remember it, and it makes my blood boil every time I see this photo!
@anneapplebaum When TFG divulged Israeli intelligence?
@anneapplebaum Day after he fired Comey, if memory serves.