CIA director announced the “end of soft policy” towards Russia

CIA director Mike Pompeo will make it clear on Thursday that Washington’s policy toward Moscow is becoming tougher.

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According to excerpts from his testimony, which the White House has circulated, he will announce this at a hearing in Congress on the approval of his candidacy as Secretary of State, writes Voice of America.

“Russia continues to act aggressively, and years of soft policy with respect to this aggression helped her in this. This is now over, ”said excerpts from Pompeo’s written testimony published on the eve of the hearings.

In these excerpts, Pompeo does not mention Russia's interference in the US election in 2016, but this issue is likely to be raised by lawmakers, some of whom accuse Trump of failing to show rigidity to Russia due to interference with the American electoral system.

Tramp pushed Pompeo, a former Republican congressman, to head the American diplomacy of March 13, along with the dismissal of Rex Tillerson, the former head of the company Exxon Mobil.

Trump has established warm relations with Pompeo at meetings in the White House in the first year of his work as head of state, and the president believes that Pompeo has similar views of the world, unlike Tillerson, who sometimes did not agree with Trump.

In his testimony, Pompeo will list the measures taken by his administration against Russia, including sanctions and the expulsion of 60 Russian diplomats in March in connection with the poisoning of a former Russian spy in the UK, which is blamed on Moscow.

“The actions of the current administration make it clear that Russia is rightfully called a threat to our country in President Trump’s national security strategy,” the statement reads.

At the same time, Pompeo leaves the door open for dialogue with Moscow to resolve differences.

“Our diplomatic work with Russia will be difficult, but, as in previous confrontations with Moscow, it must continue,” he will say.

Members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee say they will be asking Pompeo about the administration’s strategy in Syria, relations with Russia, North Korea’s nuclear ambitions and work related to China’s growing international influence.

Pompeo will say that the stakes in working with the North Korean nuclear program are high, but will express confidence in Trump’s ability to reach an agreement with Pyongyang.

“President Trump is not the person who will play the games at the negotiating table, as I am,” he will say.

Regarding Iran, Pompeo will condemn Tehran’s actions in the Middle East and promises to work with its American allies to revise the agreement concluded in 2015 between Iran and the six world powers - Great Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States.

Pompeo said that, if approved, he would discuss the agreement with Iran with the Allies at the G-7 ministerial meeting and the NATO summit later in April.

Pompeo will express disagreement with those who consider him a “hawk” and declare that war should always be a last resort.

“I would prefer to achieve the president’s foreign policy goals through hard diplomatic work, rather than sending young men and women to war,” he said.

Recall that previously the United States held consultations with the allies, discussing a possible military operation in Syria, which would be a response to the use of chemical weapons against the opposition.

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