Mike Pompeo: ‘I am concerned about a long-term structural shortage of energy resources’

By Angelos Kovaios

Former US Secretary of State and ex-CIA chief Mike Pompeo, in an exclusive interview with the Sunday To Vima during his visit to Athens for an Economist Conference, expresses his concerns about the prospect of a long-term, structural energy crisis.

Pompeo critiscises Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and underlines that he sees no indication of a change in his stance toward Greece.

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I would like to begin by you offering us your take on the results of the recent NATO summit.

I think it was useful in the sense that it allowed NATO to begin restructuring in light of a battle that apparently will be prolonged. To be honest, this conflict began long before last February. NATO did not do as much as it should have and Vladimir Putin realised that and made his move. We lost the opportunity to check him. Consequently, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and NATO leaders had an opportunity to regroup and assess the situation, to see how the war can definitively end. Everyone wants this conflict to end, and by that I mean everyone in the West, because I don't think that is what Putin wants.

How do you assess NATO's rapprochement with Turkey? Do you believe that President Erdogan is once again a trustworthy ally (if one assumes that he ever was)? We saw that when he returned to Ankara after the summit he continued his hostile rhetoric against Greece.

I was not surprised, but I was glad that President Erdogan withdrew his objections to the accession of two...