Radiating insecurity affects foreign relations

[Dill]

(07-10-2019, 08:33 AM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: Yea, I mean you can't really be an ambassador to a country when people know you feel that way about the country's leadership.

Obviously, I see the administration the same way he does, but for someone in his position, he should know not to let printed proof leak that he feels that way. It's bad for business.

Not Darroch's fault that classified communications were leaked--nor that Trump is incompetent. Darroch was just doing his job, providing a candid assessment of the Trump administration. Likely most ambassadors in DC have sent similar reports to their governments.

Hypothesis regarding the leakers' motives abound now.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/09/politics/us-britain-ambassador-memos-diplomacy/index.html

Different theories are being floated about the motivation of the leaker. Possibly, he or she was an official sympathetic to anti-European, pro-Trump factions in the Conservative Party who want Darroch gone to insert a new ambassador more ideologically in tune with Trump.

Perhaps someone from the next government wanted to send a sign to Trump that the days of traditional UK diplomats favorably disposed to the EU and the international establishment are numbered. In Tuesday's "The Sun" newspaper, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt -- Darroch's boss and Johnson's last remaining rival in the leadership race -- said officials would consider whether a hostile foreign power keen to disrupt relations between the US and Britain was behind the leak.