Diplomatic Circles

Diplomacy strikes back: ‘State’ versus the shallow state

Like so many narratives catalyzed by Donald Trump, the targeting of America’s career diplomats is likely about more than just Donald Trump.

Former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, pictured, is set to testify before the House Intelligence Committee on Nov. 15. As the impeachment inquiry against U.S. President Donald Trump has progressed with the help of testimony from career diplomats, Mike Pompeo has assumed the role of Secretary of Misdirectional Irony, writes Lisa Van Dusen. Photograph courtesy of the U.S. Embassy Kyiv Ukraine's Flickr

Opinion

BY LISA VAN DUSEN

November 13, 2019

The trajectory of America’s diplomatic brain trust over the roughly one thousand days since U.S. President Donald Trump’s inauguration reads like a covert degradation operation: the evacuation of talent by intimidation and harassment, the institutional devaluation, th...

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