EU nations which failed to pump enough cash into defence are to blame for Vladimir Putin ’s invasion of Ukraine, America’s former top envoy claimed today.
Ex-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo believed the Russian tyrant would have been deterred if European countries had bolstered their militaries in the post-Cold War years leading up to the conflict.
He said European states needed to be persuaded of the need to “protect their own (sovereignty) and that of their European nations”.
