Posted on 03/20/2021 9:50:19 AM PDT by bitt
'I think it was one of the most incompetent displays I've ever seen by an American diplomat,' Fred Fleitz says.
Former CIA analyst and National Security Council chief of staff Fred Fleitz says President Biden should replace Secretary of State Antony Blinken after a U.S.-China summit in Alaska this week dissolved into insults and little diplomatic progress.
"I think it was one of the most incompetent displays I've ever seen by an American diplomat," Fleitz told the John Solomon Reports podcast. "Insulting the Chinese just before the talks begin, before the cameras causing them to lose face. I just thought, 'This is amateur hour.'"
"Donald Trump knew how to deal with heads of state of our enemies. And these guys, I think they were just virtue signaling before the lapdog American media. It was a serious mistake and it set back our policies and it made them look inept because they weren't ready for the counter attack by Chinese officials," said Fleitz, who served as chief of staff on the Trump NSC.
"I mean, we gave them an opportunity to dress down the Secretary of State and National Security Advisor in front of the international press. What a disaster."
Fleitz proposed a solution to avoid another "disaster" like this again: find a new Secretary of State who has "gravitas."
"I think the president needs a new Secretary of State - someone with gravitas. Maybe (Sen.) Chris Coons, maybe (former Sen.) Joe Lieberman - someone who is a liberal and a Democrat, but has gravitas and is knowledgeable - not just a staff aide or an Obama retread. Someone with deep thoughts," he said. "There's just no one like that in this administration."
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send in DJT. He’ll set them straight...
Replace him with Jen psaki (sp?)
Way deeper problem than that, Fred.
This whole shit show would be amusing if there wasn’t so much at stake......
I guess Winken and Nod don’t want the job. Jao Xing might need a 600 pound mama from Georgia with a quarter inch gap in her grill to take this job.
Virtue signaling is a way to turn a potential adversary into an angry and hostile enemy seeking vengeance.
The woke crowd don’t get this—their hypocrisy and arrogance is gonna get a lot of folks killed.
Apparently the Chinese .gov is plus ticked off about blatant discrimination against Chinese Americans by the woke .gov, universities and corporations. The Chinese are taking it _very_ personally. They correctly see it as anti-Chinese racism.
The Bidet administration has “awoken a sleeping giant”.
Presidents sometimes call on former Presidents to help out, so yeah, Joe, give Donald Trump a call.
She’s circling right now...
Maybe calling Xi a killer without a soul would help?
Nod is president, Winken is VP.
Toward that end, in a fantastic article from 2018 called Everyone is smart except Trump when it comes to Putin negotiations, Rabbi Dov Fischer explained why President Trump spoke the way he did public about other leaders like Putin and Rocket Man.
If you insult Putin in public, like by telling the newsmedia just before or after meeting with him that he is the Butcher of Crimea, and he messed with our elections, and is an overall jerk — then you will get nothing behind closed doors from Putin. Putin will decide “To heck with you, and to heck with the relationship we just forged.” Putin will get even, will take intense personal revenge, even if it is bad for Russia — even if it is bad for Putin. Because there are no institutional reins on him.But if you go in public and tell everyone that Putin is a nice guy (y’know, just like Kim Jong Un) and that Putin intensely maintains that he did not mess with elections — not sweet little Putey Wutey (even though he obviously did) — then you next can maintain the momentum established beforehand in the private room. You can proceed to remind Putin what you told him privately: that this garbage has to stop — or else. That if he messes in Syria, we will do “X.” If he messes with our Iran boycott, we will do “Y.”
We will generate so much oil from hydraulic fracturing and from ANWR and from all our sources that we will glut the market — if not tomorrow, then a year from now. We will send even more lethal offensive military weapons to Ukraine. We can restore the promised shield to Eastern Europe that Obama withdrew.
And even if we cannot mess with Russian elections (because they have no elections), they do have computers — and, so help us, we will mess with their technology in a way they cannot imagine.
Trump knows from his advisers what we can do. If he sweet-talks Putin in public — just Putin on the Ritz — then everything that Trump has told Putin privately can be reinforced with action, and he even can wedge concessions because, against that background, Putin knows that no one will believe that he made any concessions.
Everyone is set to believe that Putin is getting whatever he wants, that Trump understands nothing. So, in that setting, Putin can make concessions and still save face.
That is why Trump talks about him that way. And that is the only possible way to do it when negotiating with a tyrant who has no checks and balances on him. If you embarrass the tyrant publicly, then the tyrant never will make concessions because he will fear that people will say he was intimidated and backed down. And that he never will do.
Meanwhile, Trump has expelled 60 Russians from America, reversed Obama policy and sent lethal weapons to the Ukraine, and is pressing Germany severely on its pipeline project with Russia.
This current administration will replace him with someone yet more incompetent.
It’s really getting to every man for himself time in this country. Those of us who are American patriots had better be looking out for number one and close associates we know and trust.
😆 good one
The international press isn't 'on the take' like the American press... so the word got out.
You mean that insulting people doesn’t make them want to cooperate?
Never forget that Ronald Reagan (of eternal blessed memory) made deals with the Soviet Union that were good for everyone. Not everything is zero sum like NeoCons & NeoLibs see it.
nice...
I am glad I am no longer a Marine rifleman in the Pacific with these amateurs in charge.
“Intelligence expert says U.S.-China summit a ‘disaster,’ Biden should replace top diplomat”
Yeah yeah start replacing with Biden and Kamala being replaced first.
And that’s what worries me the most. These enemies smell blood in the water and won’t wait until 2024. I fear the move will be swift when they decide to take advantage of the situation. Do they try with Biden? Or wait until Harris takes the helm..
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