Tillerson is being replaced by a man who took a hit from Putin
The appointment of former CIA Director Mike Pompeo to the post of Secretary of State, announced in the United States, instead of the dismissed Rex Tillerson, is an attempt by President Trump to remove his ally from under fire. MGIMO associate professor and political scientist Kirill Koktysh writes about this in Izvestia, according to whom the key reason for the castling is not so much Tillerson’s failures as head of American diplomacy, but...