This officer had plum assignments. He is a lawyer and probably has a job alredy lined up:
Prior to [Estonia], he served as Minister-Counselor for Management Affairs at Embassy London from 2008 to 2010 and at Embassy Moscow from 2005 to 2008. In Moscow, London and particularly in Berlin, Ambassador Melville frequently served as Chargé d’Affaires, a.i. Ambassador Melville’s first Foreign Service assignment was in the U.S. Embassy to the German Democratic Republic from 1986-1988. He has also served in Seychelles, St. Petersburg, at the U.S. Mission to NATO, and in Paris. In Washington, he has worked in Legislative Affairs, as a Senior Watch Officer in the Operations Center, and at the Foreign Service Board of Examiners. Mr. Melville speaks Russian, German, and French. He graduated from Boston University with an honors degree in history, has a J.D. from Rutgers University School of Law, and is a member of the bars of New Jersey and New York. He is originally from Bradley Beach, New Jersey and is married to Joanna Melville.
All that lofty education and he can’t see the obvious self-serving manipulation of the U.S by its so-called “allies”. Good riddance to him. We need diplomats who have common sense and expect some semblance of fairness and reciprocity in our agreements and partnerships.
We will no longer be a door mat for other countries to walk over. Trump is absolutely right that we have been the”piggy bank that everybody’s robbing.” Diplomats who focus on their pet causes and who want to champion the interests of other countries at the expense of the U.S. need to resign or retire.
So he basically made a career of sightseeing on tax payer dime and now it’s time to retire and figures he’ll stir the pot with some comments and see what other easy money he can make from that.