I have never been a diplomat, although at times I’ve had to be diplomatic.
Even though I had interactions with the State Department during my 33 years in the U.S. Army, I really am not sure about how American diplomats are instructed to speak to — or about — other great powers, specifically the Russian Federation.
What I hear coming out of the mouths of officials in both the legislative and executive branches leads me to believe the American government has little to no standards. In my judgment, these comments are made to denigrate Russia, but they also degrade us as a nation.
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This is not how great powers should deal with each other. If there is a rulebook of diplomatic speech these people are following, it
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