Pompeo stresses allied unity, defends Trump policies

BERLIN (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo stressed Friday the need for traditional Western allies to work together to face modern threats, while at the same time defending Trump administration policies on tariffs, NATO spending and other issues that have raised the ire of traditional friends. On the final day of a two-day visit focused on events marking the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Pompeo told guests at the Koerber Stiftung think-tank that the West was wrong to think that "free societies would flourish everywhere" after the end of communism. He singled out Russian President Vladimir Putin as "a former KGB officer stationed in Dresden" whose country "invades its neighbors and slays political opponents," and said the Chinese Communist Party "uses tactics and methods to suppress its own people that would be horrifyingly familiar to former East Germans.Read more on NewsOK.com

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