…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

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.

#geopolitics #diplomacy #idiocracy

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

WTF?

The #Trump administration has ordered nearly 30 US #ambassadors in embassies around the world to return to the #UnitedStates within weeks, a move that would leave a large gap in the US #DiplomaticCorps even as Trump has said he wants to resolve conflicts through #diplomacy.

#geopolitics #intelligence #NationalSecurity #idiocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/us/politics/trump-administration-ambassadors-posts.html?smid=url-share