Pompeo to meet with Putin, striving against odds for better relations

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the Russian president will talk on Tuesday, but little movement is expected on the core issues dividing their countries.

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By Carol Morello Carol Morello National reporter focusing on foreign policy and State Department Email Bio Follow May 13 at 4:11 PM Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will raise a host of issues dividing the United States and Russia when he meets Tuesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin, but their conversation is expected to accomplish little beyond the airing of opposing views.

“We are not going to solve these issues overnight, but … we have to be engaging to create opportunities for progress,” a State Department official told reporters in advance of Pompeo’s departure. The official said they are taking a “realistic approach” to a full range of disagreements that have undermined U.S.-Russian relations.

Even as Pompeo arrived in Brussels, tensions in the Middle East surged again when Saudi Arabia said two of its oil tankers were attacked and damaged in an “act of sabotage.” Saudi officials did not say who was responsible, though Saudi Arabia and Iran are regional rivals. The trip to Sochi marks Pompeo’s first visit to Russia since becoming secretary of state and comes just weeks after the release of the Mueller report on Russia’s interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

“Getting along with Russia and China, getting along with all of them is a very good thing, not a bad thing, it a good thing, it a positive thing,” Trump told reporters Friday.

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That’s a crack of shits Putin will not take any friendship to United States unless he will gain in return. Remember he was a KGB and that tells you enough about the leader of Russia of anyone against him wind up dead! Better yet assisinated

Seems like a criteria for a trump employee is to be as out of shape as he is.

Hey look, a fake 'repair our relations' meeting between the puppets and their masters. Hilarious.

So Pompeo is colluding with Putin. Got it. 👍🏻

Orange genius can not go. So he send lapdog.

Maybe they will keep him there working till after next election. No good here

How much better can they be They are all Putin’s puppets!! Your headlines just really suck Washington post, seriously.

tRump do his duty

Performance review. Putin owns the POTUS and has annexed the GOP

The only consistent policy of the traitor trump administration. Better relations with the enemy that continues to attack us.

Note to other countries, if you want Trump to pursue better relations with you, just attack the bedrock of our democracy.

LOL... better relationships? Is that a joke? Putin help elect Trump!

better relations? How much better can it get for Pootie?

STOP GOING TO RUSSIA! 😡😡😡

The moment when clueless liberals realise that Russia we where Allies with Russia in WW2. After the battle of Stalingrad the reds went for Nazi blood.

Putin knows he's woken up the sleeping giant and it's pissed. We're gonna end up with Konigsberg when everything is said and done!

TrumpAmerica, Putin- Russian relation can't be better than what it is presently. TrumpAmerica talks before reasoning, Putin-Russian reason before he talks wonder4ulworld

Pompeo has been flying around the globe. We do not really know what he is talking about, since most of these are so called private meetings. Given what we have seen of Trump, it is paramount that we know what Pompeo is really doing. We need transcripts for all those meetings.

Why this INCESSANT need to make Putin a political paramour? The overtures from this administration are actually embarrassing in light of the Democratic foil he's proven to be.

No secret meetings? Please don’t be corrupt like realDonaldTrump

Will they be discussing Trump Tower Moscow or Russian election interference? SecPompeo

The Mueller report confirmed that Russia sponsored widespread election tampering, but hey, let’s send our top diplomat to smooth things over.

How much better could relations be? Putin is in charge.

If it doesnt work out he will blame POTUS44

Oh, please. He’s compromised just like Trump. And Pompeo’s just as incompetent as Trump.

Pompeo is such a liar. realDonaldTrump is paying him well, with our money.

STRIVING FOR BETTER ODDS TO CHEAT IN 2020 ELECTION

putin’s guy is in the white house. what more can pompeo possibly give him?

who other president's team has met this much with putin?

Lol Putin doesn’t want better relations. Keep trying though.

They need their marching orders. Pomp's just an errand boy.

Collusion.

😂🤣 against what odds? The only thing preventing it is non-stop fake news/propaganda pieces

This picture weirds me out.

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