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Foreign nations now have to deal with rival factions of the U.S. government who keep major policy initiatives secret from each other and some of which work with foreign powers as the succession battle for 2028 begins, is how one diplomat put it.”
To be fair, this is nothing new. Henry Kissinger tried to usurp all foreign policy from the State Department during the Nixon era. Dick Cheney certainly didn’t care what State said about, well, anything under Bush Jr.
Even in the Colonial days there were skirmishes over who controlled what, and which advisor should be listened to. It wasn’t Foreign Affairs, this time, but Hamilton famously triumphed over many others who opposed the creation of a national bank to pay off the Revolutionary War debts.
So there are disagreements and political push-pull between departments with overlapping responsibilities? Color me not surprised.
