It’s true that major trading partners and military allies can normally count on being able to get direct access to the secretary of state or even the president, esp. for top-level stuff like major trade deals, which makes their ambassadors less critical. And there is a long tradition of these positions being used as political payback. Hopefully they’ll at least be able to get some professional staffers in to do the actual work. But with Captain Random at the helm, who knows.
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