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 I'm doubtful on this political take here - smells of a partisan jab. Surely Europe's blind reliance on energy dependence and financing Putin's ambitions as a result the greater source of today's events. No NS2 from the start and we would not be here more certainly. Merkel failed.
@anneapplebaum @Dixie202021 If they voted for the OVERQUALIFIED lady.. She’d be in her 2nd term, and we’d DEFINITELY BE IN A BETTER PLACE RIGHT NOW… AND DECADES DOWN THE ROAD! She tried to tell ‘em about “them deplorables”
@anneapplebaum The US Ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yankovich (?),was warned in a 3:00 am phone call to get the next plane out of Ukraine.She did. A 33 year foreign service career down the drain while Pampeo did nothing to protect her. Trump warned she was “going to go through some things.”
@anneapplebaum Yup. The op-ed by Fiona Hill in today's NYT is great.
@anneapplebaum Meanwhile, Navarro is going on Fox and claiming that Ukraine is not even a country.
@anneapplebaum Amazing how people just memory hole the whole first Impeachment.
@anneapplebaum He would’ve needed a conscience and a soul… West Point should take back his diploma etc.
@anneapplebaum Pompeo even let one of his own ambassadors be threatened with harm and did nothing to help.
@anneapplebaum @efrogwraig Former Guy would have fired him for defying their boss Putin. And would never have hired Pompeo in the first place if he'd been capable of doing it.