Diplomacy in Decline
31st May 2026
CBS News, a Voice of the Crust.
Roughly 2,000 U.S. diplomats have been laid off or forced to retire, taking with them decades of institutional knowledge, crisis response experience and highly specialized language skills.
Raise your hand if you think that the Federal tovernment needs more of the type of peiole who ran American foreign policy prior to Trump’s election in 2016.