FORMER US SECRETARY of state Mike Pompeo wrote in a book published today that India and Pakistan came close to nuclear war in 2019 and that US intervention prevented escalation. India, he informed me, was contemplating its own escalation,” Pompeo wrote. Pompeo said that US diplomats convinced both India and Pakistan that neither was preparing to go nuclear. “No other nation could have done what we did that night to avoid a horrible outcome,” Pompeo wrote. Pointing to Kim’s smoking habit, Pompeo wrote that he told Kim he would take him to “the nicest beach in Miami and smoke the best Cubanos in the world.
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