{"id":21029,"date":"2023-03-09T06:17:37","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T05:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=21029"},"modified":"2023-03-09T06:17:37","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T05:17:37","slug":"blinkens-moscow-policy-criticized-by-envoy-who-helped-free-brittney-griner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=21029","title":{"rendered":"Blinken\u2019s Moscow policy criticized by envoy who helped free Brittney Griner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/mar\/09\/antony-blinken-criticized-former-diplomat-russia-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guardian<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"dcr-n6w1lc\">Cameron Hume, a career diplomat who was an ambassador under Bill Clinton, George W Bush and Barack Obama, said: \u201cFor a secretary of state to not want to even get body language or two words from Sergei Lavrov about the situation in Moscow, in the Kremlin, in the people who are close to [Vladimir] Putin, during a time of war was striking to me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-n6w1lc\">\u201cI would want those little tiny windows into that reality, given the stakes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-n6w1lc\">Hume said: \u201cI think if you have problems with people, you\u2019re a diplomat, you\u2019re just supposed to meet with them. And that doesn\u2019t convey that you\u2019re weak, soft or anything else. It conveys you want to explore how you deal with the problem rather than ignore how you deal with the problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-n6w1lc\">Hume also said: \u201cThere\u2019s been a general habit of American diplomacy, which has strengthened or become more dominant in the last 30 years, that if we don\u2019t like what somebody\u2019s doing, we will name them and shame them and we will then assume that\u2019s all we have to do. And we\u2019ll go out and have lunch<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-n6w1lc\">\u201cYou can\u2019t resolve complicated conflicts just sitting on your laurels and saying I\u2019m morally superior.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian: Cameron Hume, a career diplomat who was an ambassador under Bill Clinton, George W Bush and Barack Obama, said: \u201cFor a secretary of state to not want to even get body language or two words from Sergei Lavrov about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=21029\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}