Foggy Bottom is filled with diplomats...so those legacies do not impress me, they anger me...
I wonder if the Rus, the Turk and the rabble will respect Israel more if they no longer react to sucker-punches and start acting like the crap those people admire...declare war on them, bulldoze them all into dust, wait for the rallies of support when they/them try to fight back...
The modern US diplomats seem to lack any diplomatic skills and any knowledge of history. They might have the titles but not the skills.
Why do they keep dragging US CIA director away from his day job? IMO there is no one else with his skill set.
Here is a former US diplomat.
https://youtu.be/_gS09ogK4is Ukraine The Full Story | By Ambassador Chas Freeman
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Former US Ambassador Chas Freeman explains expertly the entire history, causes, and effects of the Ukraine war, shattering the common narrative about an "unprovoked" war. The Ukraine War was very much preventable but US Neocons chose to push Kiev into the abyss to wage a bloody proxy-war for the sake of their megalomaniac world-domination phantasies. Where does this leave Ukraine, Russia, and Europe for the years to come? Listen to the Ambassador giving a succinct overview of the lessons from the Ukraine Proxy-War.