Another earthquake in US politics, because as we learn from a tweet of President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has been fired and will be replaced by Mike Pompeo, currently CIA Director.
Trump's choice to replace Tillerson had been in the air for many months, especially since the president considered the former ex-secretary of state to be part of the Republican establishment and with whom the reports had been tense for a long time.
Tillerson, before about November, was considered one of Trump's loyalists, but as the months wore on, the relationship between the two cracked especially as regards the position to be taken against North Korea, against which Tillerson has always pushed for a less harsh line, and the Iran nuclear deal, which Trump has never frowned upon while the former secretary of state defended the sword.
Also vis-à-vis Europe there were many divergent visions between the two, because Trump has repeatedly threatened NATO allies that the United States would not defend those who would not have met the required expenditure parameters (2% of GDP for defense, ed), while Tillerson was on more cautious and traditionalist positions.
Important divergences that led to this important choice of Trump, which arrived just in anticipation of the meeting with the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and the possible revision of the NAFTA, the free trade agreements between the United States, Mexico and Canada.
It will be Pompey's task to organize everything, far away, from the will of the moderate wing of the Republican Party. In fact, the former director of the CIA is part of the Tea Party, the less moderate wing, of the Grand Old Party, and has already expressed conflicting positions with respect to those of the former secretary of state, especially on the Iranian nuclear agreement, which unlike of the European allies would like to tear up.
In the conclusion of the tweet Trump thanked Tillerson for his work and announced Pompeo's successor to the CIA, Gina Haspel, who will be the first woman to hold this position.
(photo: US Air Force)
