Pompeo questions the value of international groups like UN and EU

[DonViejo]

By Gardiner Harris DECEMBER 05, 2018

BRUSSELS — In a major speech Tuesday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tried to explain one of the abiding conundrums of the Trump administration: How does a nationalist lead on the international stage?

The answer, he said, is to jettison some treaties and institutions while bolstering others. Among the institutions that Pompeo criticized were the United Nations, the European Union, the Organization of American States, and the African Union, but he embraced NATO — which President Trump has harshly criticized — as an “indispensable institution.”

The speech, delivered in a palatial concert hall in Brussels, was intended to explain Trump’s worldview to a deeply skeptical audience, including many Europeans who see Trump as undermining international agreements that have kept the peace in Europe and enhanced prosperity.

“Even our European friends sometimes say we’re not acting in the free world’s interest. This is just plain wrong,” Pompeo said, adding that “under President Trump, we are not abandoning international leadership or our friends in the international system. Indeed, quite the contrary.”

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[underpants]

1. That's leadership folks

"NO GOD! NO GOD, PLEASE NO, NO, NO, NOOOOO..."

[brush]

2. This is the same guy who said that there is not evidence that MBS ordered the Khashoggi killing.

This disastrous administration continues to fail us nationally and internationally.

[MineralMan]

3. That has been the goal of the right for a long, long time.

Isolationism, along with economic exploitation of poor nations, is the right's plan for the United States.

Nobody should be surprised at Pompeo's opinion.