State Department officials say that a broad transition of diplomatic
resources is in the works, with many diplomats to be reassigned away
from Iraq and Afghanistan in favor of “great power competition” with Russia and China.
This suggests that the diplomats aren’t actually going to China and
Russia, but rather are going to various nations along their periphery to
drum up diplomatic tensions between the two nations and other nations
in their regions.
Some drawdown is likely to be fairly simple. The US Embassy in Iraq, for
instance, is vastly oversized for the nation’s importance to US
interests. It is unclear, however, whether the Afghan peace talks will
as easily support a drawdown.
Either way, it’s clear that the US priority is drumming up further
hostilities toward Russia and China on the international scene, and that
is where a growing amount of the State Department’s resources will be
going.
Your World War 3 will be broadcasted live as scheduled.
Apparently these armies of diplomats in practice serve to drum up
conflict rather than avoiding it. It takes thousands of experts to
dream up excuses to never leave a country which the US invaded for no
good reason. Now their priority will be to surround Russia and China, cajoling those impoverished nations to spend lavishly for a war that will either never happen, or that will kill most of their people and destroy their countries.
The State Department is Neocon/Israeli occupied territory. A nest of Deep State traitors totally opposed to and working against Trump’s anti-Imperial, anti-regime-change instinct.
Remember the June 2016 letter signed by 51 State Dept officials urging more war on Syria? Neocons. And then the Jan 2017 anti-Trump action: the letter signed by 100 state Dept officials opposing Trump’s “Muslim Ban”? Opportunistic Deep-Staters and Neocons.
Please do not pretend that the USA has any diplomats or has ever had any intention of acting by negotiations and not threats, violence and sanctions.
Spending what money? This money is part of the multi-trillion debt, multi-billion annual deficit, and GROWING trade deficit with China. Yes, neocons always believe, as all true zealots do, that the success is around the corner and thus — keep on spending. But never their money.
How does this combine with all the reports of the state department being seriously understaffed? Maybe the main factor is lack of people and the current reassigments are about allocating people where they are considered most important, the perifery of China/Russia , indeed in line with the philosophy the function of diplomats is feeding conflict, not diminishing it.