“Politico, based on numerous sources, reported that the US Embassy and the State Department of the US Administration Donald Trump lacks regular executives, and their employees are afraid to disagree with the White House policy.”, – WRITE: www.pravda.com.ua
Source: Politico based on conversations with more than a dozen of current and former diplomats and US Department employees, writes “European Truth”
Details: Politico interlocutors said that the Trump administration is turning a diplomatic service into less and less power in international relations, whose diplomats are only performers and not initiators of political ideas.
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This is happening despite the stated plans of State Secretary Marco Rubio to make his office more central to the formation of US foreign policy, the material is said.
Many diplomatic missions of the United States also have an atmosphere of fear, which is mostly associated with the possibility of diplomats to communicate and disagree, writes Politico.
For example, in one American embassy, high-ranking officials ordered ordinary employees to discuss “any even remotely delicate issues face-to-face”, and there were rumors that the State Department could install spyware software to track their e-mail.
The concern of Politico interlocutors is also the absence of permanent candidates for a number of leadership positions in the State Department, which are often filled, according to them, on the basis of political loyalty, not competence.
Complaints were heard in particular towards the head of the Bureau on the Middle East of the Sea, which, according to Politico sources, increased the employees she considers more loyal to more experienced higher rank diplomats.
Another problem is the extremely large number of vacant positions of ambassadors – such as 110 out of 195. In part, this is due to the slowness of the Senate in the approval of the candidates, but at the same time the White House did not offer candidates for more than 60 positions.
That preceded: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in April announced the reform of the foreign policy, which first of all is to reduce and optimize a number of structures.
The media wrote that Trump’s administration seeks to significantly reduce the budget of the US foreign policy and stop financing international organizations.