Former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo believes President Xi of China wants world dominance and is a bigger threat to the globe than Vladimir Putin.
Mr Pompeo served as secretary of state under Donald Trump between 2018 and 2021 and was the director of the CIA before that."Make no mistake about it, he's a bad guy."Mr Pompeo went on to attack Mr Trump's predecessors, accusing President Biden of being weak and"allowing the war to happen".
"What changed in the last decade? In 2014, President Obama allows Putin to take Crimea - one fifth of Ukraine. We always think about this war as having started on February 24th, now almost exactly a year ago. It actually started in 2014. Then, for four years, Putin doesn't invade Europe. Doesn't take another single inch. And then, we leave office and he goes at it again. I believe that's not coincidence.
Mr Pompeo rejected suggestions President Biden is acting as a leader on behalf of the West in its response to the Ukraine invasion and criticised how countries had responded to the war. "The West has been slow, and late, and fearful of escalation, and that's been a mistake. And so we should do our best to fix that today. We should provide them the things that they need and put Ukraine and the West in a place where Vladimir Putin will see the handwriting on the wall. This is how you restore deterrence."Asked what a negotiated diplomatic solution to the war would look like, he said:"It would begin with the following.
"To put President Zelenskyy and the Ukrainian people in the position where President Putin would be negotiating from weakness. The ultimate resolution they will have to sort their way through."
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