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Tanuki

(16,250 posts)
Thu Nov 27, 2025, 05:04 AM Nov 27

Ladies and gentlemen, our Ambassador to Greece:

I guess this is what to expect when an Ambassadorship is handed out by an idiot as a consolation prize for getting dumped by Idiot Jr.


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DFW

(59,635 posts)
3. If we had done that to the Greeks 50 years ago
Thu Nov 27, 2025, 07:27 AM
Nov 27

They would have left NATO and joined the Warsaw Pact

FakeNoose

(39,875 posts)
6. I'm so old that I can remember when Ambassadors were trained in diplomacy
Thu Nov 27, 2025, 09:58 AM
Nov 27

... and many had degrees from prestige schools like U. of Georgetown. Or if not, they had diplomatic careers in the State Department. What has happened to us?

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