Massive Change to State Department: Thousands in Staff Cuts, Closing 100 Foreign Offices in Drastic Overhaul
This is big news and the best news.
For far too long, the State Department is infamous for working in the interest and employ of the foreign nations and adversaries they were assigned to – not in our national self interest. State Department employees weren’t putting American and Americans first.
It’s an enormous undertaking. Foreign Service is a different kind of animal. Most get subsumed by the culture at State and the snakes in Foreign Service. Pompeo, Tillerson and Condi was consumed by them, and Kerry was completely and utterly out of his depth. They ate him for lunch.
