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...Pompeo cited some quotes from Western leaders, including Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland saying in June 2017, "The fact that our friend and ally has come to question the very worth of its mantle of global leadership, puts into sharper focus the need for the rest of us to set our own clear and sovereign course." He noted the statement in February 2019 from M. Jean-Yves Le Drian, Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, and Mr Heiko Maas, German Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs, saying, "The multilateral order is experiencing its perhaps gravest crisis since the emergence - its emergence after the Second World War.".
...Let's start with a simple fact: Free nations are simply more successful than any other model that's been tried in the history of civilization.
...It's any nation - any nation that adopts a model of respect for individual freedom, free enterprise, national sovereignty.
...Look, we urge other nations to protect human dignity, because we believe in unalienable rights.
...Pompeo cited numerous instances in which the United States confronted nations bent on destroying the West, then asserted, "Are these actions, these American actions, are they consistent with the claim that America 'has come to question the very worth of its mantle of global leadership?'".
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