Pompeo: Russia should feel pain
July 11, 2021

Russia should feel pain, said former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, while talking about what the American strategy should be for responding to the alleged cyber attacks by Russia.
According to Fox News, Pompeo said that while listening to President Biden, he was convinced that Russian President Vladimir Putin felt pleasure with him.
“I watched the president tell him, ‘Hey, there’s a list of 16 things you can’t touch,’ which leaves thousands of things he can potentially touch.” I think she looks at each of these things and says, “I can move in this direction, I can keep speeding up my ransom program (which requires ransom from the victim of a cyber attack).” He can say that it is not his program, but he knows what they are doing, he knows how to prevent it “, claims Pompeo.
Pompeo believes that Russia should be forced to pay a higher price than such a move.
“In the end, you have to impose real costs on Russian leaders, not just Vladimir Putin, but all the oligarchs involved in these operations,” Pompeo said.
He assessed that at the end of the day, all conversations meant nothing.
“Putin will hear it, but it will enter one ear and come out the other. The only thing that will make him change the behavior and the attitude of those who carry out the attacks is that it makes them expensive. People in Russia are watching the pain, the Russian government is watching the pain, but there are real costs. We have a chance to do that. “These are leaders who think about the real strategy, and then implement it with great force and communicate with the Russians so that the reason for the answer can be directly attributed to what happened to us,” Pompeo explained.
