Effort thread: I’m going to dissect the “Three Lighthouses” speech that Mike Pompeo just gave at the Hudson Institute.

This was a major speech — he is speaking for the entire American foreign policy

Right off the bat, Pompeo calls the Ukraine war an inflection point, and calls for a international “alliance for freedom” to fight a combined China and Russia.

This is a significant departure from US foreign policy ideas up to now.

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Up until this speech, there was still the hope/expectation that Russia and China could be diplomatically cleaved.

This hope is now gone and American foreign policy views the two countries as indissoluble allies in all but name.

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A key admission in this speech is that the United States does not intend to put boots on the ground in Ukraine under any circumstances.

Instead, the US will rely on an endless supply of weapons to Ukraine To undermine the Russia/China “axis”.

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Pompeo is underlining the strategy of “fight the Russians to the last Ukrainian”.

He is conflating current Russia with the Soviet Union, and turning the ideological Cold War into a resources Cold War.

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