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Many of the #ambassadors were told in recent days to leave their posts by mid-January. They are all foreign service officers who had been appointed to their positions by the #Biden admin & confirmed by the #Senate. A standard tour is 3 to 4 years.
The #union representing career diplomats said this was the first time that such a mass recall had taken place of career diplomats serving as ambassadors or chiefs of mission.
#geopolitics #diplomacy #intelligence #NationalSecurity #Trump #idiocracy
@Nonilex
He thinks he can do it all.
@Nonilex Just another order from his KGB handler.
Many of the #ambassadors were told in recent days to leave their posts by mid-January. They are all foreign service officers who had been appointed to their positions by the #Biden admin & confirmed by the #Senate. A standard tour is 3 to 4 years.
The #union representing career diplomats said this was the first time that such a mass recall had taken place of career diplomats serving as ambassadors or chiefs of mission.
#geopolitics #diplomacy #intelligence #NationalSecurity #Trump #idiocracy
@Nonilex but it’s not a coup d’etat in progress
“Those affected report being notified abruptly, typically by phone, with no explanation provided,” said Nikki Gamer, spox for the #union representing career diplomats, the American Foreign Service Assn. “That method is highly irregular.”
“The lack of transparency & process breaks sharply with longstanding norms,” she added.
After checking its archives, the union “can say definitively that such a mass recall has never happened since the founding of the Foreign Service as we know it,” Gamer said
… #China has surpassed the #US in the number of diplomatic missions in the world, & maintains a consistent rotation of ambassadors through each one.
The mass recall could further damage morale among career diplomats working under Secy of State #MarcoRubio.
Earlier this month, the #union released results of a survey of its members showing that 98% of respondents said that workplace morale had fallen since #Trump began his second term.
@Nonilex It's all part of a plan to destroy the leadership role America has had throughout the world. Putin demanded it, the Orange Mess complied.
Most of the survey’s >2,100 respondents said they were managing tighter budgets & greater workloads as the #Trump admin cut spending, including a drastic reduction in US foreign #aid. 86% said it had become more difficult to carry out #US #ForeignPolicy. Only 1% reported an improvement.
#MarcoRubio presided over what he called a “reorganization” of the department this year. The dept announced ~1,300 layoffs in July, w/ 264 foreign service officers among them.
…At one point this year, about a dozen senior career diplomats who, before the start of the #Trump administration, had gotten assignments to be deputy chiefs of mission overseas were told they would no longer have those jobs. Most of them were #women or people of color [ #POC].
#geopolitics #diplomacy #intelligence #NationalSecurity #idiocracy #WhiteSupremacy #MaleSupremacy
@Nonilex Not surprised. Bigotry in action.
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