(8 Nov 2019) The US Secretary of State on Friday said that the West got "lost in the afterglow" of the collapse of the Berlin Wall, mistakenly assuming that it would lead to a global trend in which "free societies would flourish everywhere".
Mike Pompeo spoke in the German capital during a visit to mark the fall of the Berlin Wall.
"We most importantly thought that we could divert our resources away from alliances and militaries and the things that had secured those very freedoms," he said, adding that "sadly, we were wrong".
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