Pompeo: Biden’s talk about the “end of the world” was reckless.
The former US Secretary of State reacted to Joe Biden’s recent comment about the possibility of “Armageddon” (the end of the world) and called Biden’s speech “reckless”.
Mike Pompeo, who was the Secretary of State in the administration of former US President Donald Trump, accused Joe Biden in an interview of claiming that Russian President Vladimir Putin might use nuclear weapons in his Thursday night speech at a Democratic Party rally. to “recklessness”.
“If they (the Russians) continue the way they are going, for the first time since the Cuban Missile Crisis, Joe Biden said in a speech last Thursday night during a special fundraiser for Democratic Party supporters in New York. “We are facing the direct threat of using nuclear weapons.”
“We haven’t faced the prospect of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban missile crisis,” the Democratic president warned.
In an interview with the “Fox News Sunday” program, Pompeo said in response to Biden’s speech: “Those comments are reckless.”
Pompeo called these words of Biden “a terrible risk for the American people”.
“Politico” newspaper base has concluded that Vladimir Putin has recently hinted at the possibility of using nuclear weapons, including saying that Russia will use “all available tools” to protect its territory, including the territories recently annexed to Russia. .
“John Bolton”, the national security adviser of the former US government, who recently considered Biden’s controversial comment about “the end of the world” as an exaggeration, said in an interview with ABC on Sunday: “The American president is taking very high risks.” Think that they are working now.”
According to Politico, Pompeo advised the Biden administration to use “quiet diplomacy” in what he described as getting Putin to understand the consequences of using nuclear weapons.
“I hope they do it quietly,” he said.
In this interview, Pompeo also considered the hand of the Ukrainians in the Saturday explosion on the bridge between Crimea and Russia and said: “My guess is that the Ukrainians have something to do with this.”
