American Diplomats Comfort With Tillerson Gives Way to Unease - Bloomberg

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U.S. diplomats breathed a sigh of relief three months ago when Rex Tillerson was nominated as secretary of state, welcoming the oilman as a seasoned manager who would shield them from ideologues ready to gut America’s foreign policy machinery.

Yet that comfort is now giving way to unease, as the former Exxon Mobil Corp. chief embraces President Donald Trump’s vision.
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...Daniel Runde, a Republican who’s a fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. “We have a Republican Congress and a Republican executive branch, and we’re overdue for a strategic conversation for how we use our soft power in the world.”
- Bloomberg

It doesn't sound like being shielded from ideologues is on the republican agenda for today. So sorry.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Republicans use power only for one reason, personal profit.

This is about oil in Russia.

Trump, Tillerson and Putin are a team now. Treason was necessary to get here and of course the two Americans committed it.

Treason only matters if the citizens care, and half of us dont because the treason is advancing the white supremacy cause.

[Thomas Hurt]

2. watch what they do, not what they say

Not that they are saying much, but

purging the upper ranks of career diplomats
Trump's inability to fill appointed positions

Trump harms our influence in the world, either to centralize it to himself, like the fascist autocrat he wants to be

or, to install and gird against the far right's conspiracy theorist, paranoiac world view in a rebranded version of the NWO.

Isolationism, withdrawal of State and CIA from the world, increase military spending. Basically squat within our borders and keep checking under the bed for illegals or muslims.

and frankly IMO Rex is there to open Russia and return to Exxon a corporate God. He doesn't give a crap about anything else.

I would say he resigns a few months after he gets Russian oil rights freed up. If he gets it opened.