Stories keep crossing my view about the resilience of the Russian economy and capital markets in the face of sanctions, mostly because the rest of the world does not have as clear a black and white picture of what's going on in Ukraine as we do. More than anything, this bespeaks a failure on our part to have played a smart long game diplomatically in the Global South.
With our shifting ideologies, now rigidly anticommunist, now opportunist, now isolationist, and our more recent focus on "draining the swamp," we have failed to build a stable, professional and coherent diplomatic core and practice. This is coming home to bite us in the ass.
All is not lost, we just need to get serious and thoughtful again. Certainly, rather than vilifying long-term government employees, we should celebrate and encourage them, though it's true the organs of state mus be managed critically. I wonder what the possibilities are for things like kaizen and TQM in government.
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