Posted on 10/09/2017 4:17:54 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
After nearly nine months of the Trump administration, many of America’s closest allies have concluded a hoped-for “learning curve” they thought would make President Trump a reliable partner is not going to happen.
“The idea that he would inform himself, and things would change, that is no longer operative,” said a top diplomat here.
Instead, they see an administration in which lines of authority and decision-making are unclear, where tweets become policy and hard-won international accords on trade and climate are discarded. The result has been a special kind of challenge for those whose jobs are to advocate for their countries and explain the president and his unconventional ways at home.
Senior diplomats and officials from nearly a dozen countries in Europe, Latin America and Asia expressed a remarkable coincidence of views in interviews over the past several weeks. Asked to describe their thoughts about and relations with the president and his team as the end of Trump’s first year approaches, many described a whirlwind journey beginning with tentative optimism, followed by alarm and finally reaching acceptance that the situation is unlikely to improve.
“We have to adjust to this,” said a second diplomat from a different continent.
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“a special kind of challenge for those whose jobs are to advocate for their countries”
I thought foreign diplomats were to be advocating for the USA abroad, not the other way around?
oh, now i see, american diplomat to.....
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foreign diplomat
“We have to adjust to this,” said a second diplomat from a different continent. “he won’t take a bribe and give us a bunch of the taxpayer’s money.”
More like grovel.
All this is telling me is “We gave him 9 months to start acting like that last bozo and we’re pissed that he still thinks he’s the boss”
They’ll get over it.
MAGA!!!!
Glad to hear it. Shows the Prez is doing something right. MAGA!!
No enigma here. If it is not good for the U.S., it’s no go.
Ah yes, foreign diplomats here love it when one acts like a liberal, feckless, craven American so that they can rip you off. Not the brightest bunch imo.
+1000. I never liked Obama but that bow made me despise him.
F____ them all. They hate America anyway.
It looks like the foreigners are complaining that their sweetheart deals made by weak American leaders, at the expense of the American people are not worth the paper they were written on. It looks like more President Trump winning to me.
If we keep putting up WaPo and NYT stuff FR is going to get a reputation as a Contemporary Fiction site.
He doesn’t provide “dancing boys” like barry did.
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