Making his visit to Russia on Tuesday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
was full of demands for the Putin government, leading off with a demand that Russia “take action” to prove that there would be no interference in the 2020 US elections.
It’s not clear what such action would look like, though Pompeo said that
the US “would not tolerate that,” and that it would make US-Russia
relations even worse than they already are.
On top of this, Pompeo demanded that Russia unconditionally release the Ukrainian sailors arrested
last year for violating Russian waters, and said Russia must work with
Ukraine’s new president to make peace with the separatists in Eastern
Ukraine.
Russia largely didn’t address these demands, but Russian FM Sergey
Lavrov did fire back at Pompeo’s demand for Venezuela’s President Maduro
to resign, saying that the Venezuelan people should decide on their
future, and US meddling was undemocratic.
prove a negative….ok right
It worked with Saddam.
Why do the Russians even deign to speak with ignorant, arrogant bloated oaf Pompeo?
Too bad the Russians didn’t send Pompeo to the Saudi consulate.
That statement implicitly admits that Russia interfered in the 2020 elections. Will the President fire Pompeo for that?
Will the US prove it’s not meddling in the Iranian political process?
Prove something won’t happen in the future which didn’t really happen in the past..?! No one may interfere in the sacrosanct process of representation between the US government and Raytheon, Lockheed, and Boeing.
Obviously neither demand is going to be agreed to by Russia, so obviously they will be used against Russia going forward in the 2020 election rhetoric.. Russia obviously told him to go pound sand. While Russia would be happy to respond to any legitimate attempt by the US to repair relations, most of the Russian government have accepted that’s not going to happen any time soon.
Isn’t this a logical fallacy? It’s impossible to prove the nonexistence of something.
The Russkies should just respond: “We can’t make that promise.”
The Russians are far too polite, and Pompass is as far removed from diplomacy as anyone could be. “Meddling”??? “Russia does not meddle in others’ elections”- I believe Vladimir Putin over Trump and the rest including Clapper, Comey, Mueller, Brennan, and of course the USA needs NO HELP in running unfair elections paid for by lobbies, and with candidates not representative of the people.
Ukraine-ah yes, where the USA helped overthrow the government and prepared for a NATO base in Crimea before Pres.Putin in his wily way got the Crimeans, overwhelmingly Russian, to decide in a referendum to return their territory to Russia. Not quite the business of the USA and its NATO friends who had already hemmed in Russia with bases, far from the hemisphere they claim to own, but now a “fact on the ground” or the Kerch Bridge!!
Pompeo`s IQ is at rock botton.