🧵On timing of Biden admin decision to allow vaccinated travelers in from November, a non-admin foreign policy expert says:
“Pretty sure this wouldn’t have happened we’re it not for the crisis with France. All the signals I got up to late last week were no imminent change.” 1/
“Pretty sure this wouldn’t have happened we’re it not for the crisis with France. All the signals I got up to late last week were no imminent change.” 1/
“They had to do something to try to change the dynamic with Europe,” the expert in touch with admin said. “Words don’t matter and are even counterproductive— they had to act and this was low hanging fruit.” 2/
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“For Europeans, it’s not that their US counterparts were malevolent. It’s that they seemed powerless and were losing all the internal arguments.”
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