🧵this quote needs to be unpacked.
“It says a lot about how Washington discerns its interests in the Pacific..that there was no hand-wringing about angering the French.”
no handwringing by blinken? really?
maybe no handwringing by k. campbell.
seems some handwringing now
“It says a lot about how Washington discerns its interests in the Pacific..that there was no hand-wringing about angering the French.”
no handwringing by blinken? really?
maybe no handwringing by k. campbell.
seems some handwringing now
https://twitter.com/rickgladstone/status/1439070488421183488
different policy experts have different foci. what seems broken about the inter agency process here is the people in the Biden administration who know and care about the transatlantic alliance did not get brought into it until too late diplomatic.substack.com/p/france-recal…
Also, does this line pass the laugh test? Come on.
“They told us they would take care of dealing with the French,” one senior U.S. official said.
“They told us they would take care of dealing with the French,” one senior U.S. official said.
it betrays a consciousness of deception on US part that makes their words on how much it values the alliance with France and the transatlantic alliance pretty empty. which they don’t want to admit to themselves. that either their process is broken or they don’t mean what they say
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