Russia wants to control energy reserves of all former Soviet countries, Mike Pompeo says – POLITICO
Russia’s war against Ukraine is a “planned genocide” and aimed at creating “a new Russian empire that seeks to become a rump Soviet Union,” with extensive energy reserves, former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said. Delivering a speech at the Hudson Institute, a conservative, Washington-based think tank, on Wednesday, Pompeo said that “Putin’s illegal, …