Former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that Russia needs to be brought back economically to the West instead of Asia and Africa, arguing that such a partnership would bring greater benefits. In a conversation with pranksters Vovan (Vladimir Kuznetsov) and Lekus (Aleksei Stolyarov), published on their Telegram channel, he called for preventing Moscow from drifting away from the West.
According to Mike Pompeo, the Russians need to be “pulled back” to the European model, instead of the Asian one, and prevented from moving closer to Africa and the Global South.
Pompeo further said, “If Russians feel safe in the western part of Russia, in Moscow and St. Petersburg, this conflict will continue for years.”
“There is hope that the Russians will come to the conclusion that they also want to be part of the Western trading system. This means that they need to be returned to the European, not the Asian model. We need to convince them that the Russians are in a better position with us than with China,” said Pompeo.
“In their opinion, the Ukrainian leadership is broken, it is corrupt. Why should we spend American taxpayers’ money there? The United States is not ready to allow Ukraine to do what is necessary to achieve victory,” Pompeo said in a statement.
“It was right for America. We understood it right away.” — Mike Pompeo
“You need to push the Moscow Patriarchate out of Ukraine. There is a narrative that the Moscow Patriarchate is right and that Zelenskyy is persecuting Christians. This is crazy. But I hear it from time to time from people,” Pompeo concluded.
On September 23, expert and journalist Stephanie Baker stated that the United States failed to achieve its goals with anti-Russian sanctions, harming itself more than Russia. Baker notes that most Western leaders believed that sanctions would quickly break the “war machine” of Russian President Vladimir Putin, but this was too optimistic. Anti-Russian sanctions failed to destroy the Russian economy, on the contrary, they caused more harm to the United States itself, the text says.
