U.S. Asserts Authority at NATO in Stinging Criticism – IOTW Report

U.S. Asserts Authority at NATO in Stinging Criticism

Tuesday, 4 December 2018, 22:45 MJA Uncategorized 7

Pompeo criticizes European capitulation to Iran, China, Russia.

WFB: BRUSSELS—Secretary of State Mike Pompeo brought the Trump administration’s voice to a gathering of European leaders, offering a stinging criticism of the European order’s capitulation to rogue nations such as Iran, China, and Russia.

Pompeo, addressing a gathering of NATO leaders on Tuesday, offered a sobering rebuke of the international treaty group, telling the crowd the Trump administration will not stand down in the face of rising threats from a host of rogue regimes.

Criticizing the rise of anti-Israel bias and complacency in the face of growing threats from countries such as Iran, Pompeo championed President Donald Trump’s foreign policy vision.

“This U.S. leadership allowed us to enjoy the greatest human flourishing in modern history. We won the Cold War. We won the peace. We reunited Germany,” Pompeo said. “This is the type of leadership that President Trump is boldly reasserting.”

“After the Cold War ended, we allowed this liberal order to begin to corrode,” Pompeo continued. “It failed us, and it failed you. Multilateralism has become viewed as an end unto itself. The more treaties we sign, the safer we supposedly are. The more bureaucrats we have, the better the job gets done. Was that ever really true? Does the system as it exists today work for all the people of the world?”

Pompeo had harsh words for the United Nations as well, telling leaders the international organization has failed to uphold Western values amid rising threats from rogue nations that seek to buck the global order.  MORE

7 Comments on U.S. Asserts Authority at NATO in Stinging Criticism

  4. ” In the finest traditions of our great democracy, we are rallying the noble nations to build a new liberal order that prevents war and achieves greater prosperity.”

    … hopefully, for the next 6 years … after that, I shudder to think what our ‘electorate’ will decide which current, or future President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho Ocassio-Cortez will be our next Obama-Figurehead

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