Mike Pompeo: ‘Truly Troubling’ To See Biden Administration Waive Sanctions On Russian Pipeline

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Mike Pompeo, 70th Secretary of State and a current Distinguished Fellow at the Hudson Institute & Fox News Contributor joined Fox News Radio’s Guy Benson Show to discuss the ongoing conflict in the middle east. The Biden Administration waiving sanctions on Nord Stream 2 Russian pipeline and The origins of the coronavirus within China.

Secretary Pompeo said,

“You’ll remember to at the very onset of the administration they gave the Russians another gift. There was a treaty that was about to expire, that the Russians are in noncompliance on. We went ahead and extended it, extended this treaty in spite of the fact we knew there was noncompliance and in spite of the fact that we’ve got nothing in exchange for that. So this would be the second time this administration has demonstrated its absence of resolve with respect to pushing back against Russia. Look, we took these threat from Russia seriously. We provided defensive weapons systems to the Ukrainians. We, by the way, there was bipartisan consensus on this pipeline in the north that said we ought not let the Russians finish this pipeline to make our NATO ally and friend Germany, more reliant on Russian energy. This was this wasn’t a Republican idea. It was the Trump administration’s policy supported by a broad swath of elected officials and both parties to see them walk away from this, to see them lift these sanctions on a guy named Matthias Warnecke, who is so deeply connected to a company called Rosneft at the center of the Russian energy oligarchy is truly troubling Guy.”