07-10-2019, 08:42 AM
(07-10-2019, 08:39 AM)Dill Wrote: Darroch was just doing his job. Not his fault Trump is incompetent--or that classified communications were leaked.
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.
Hey, I hadn't even read anything on this and I came to the same conclusion. Good on me.
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
