Expect the New US Secretary of State to Be Both More Effective and More Hawkish
It should come as no surprise that Rex Tillerson was fired as secretary of the US State Department this week. While there were hopes, early on, that he might prove effective, he was neither trusted by President Trump nor liked by the foreign service. From a US perspective, his successor, Mike Pompeo, might well do better. However, he will likely be more uncomfortable for America’s allies, including the UK.
Tillerson’s exit adds to the growing list of departures from senior positions around Trump. As a recent Brookings study showed, around 43 per cent of White House and executive branch senior staff left the Trump administration in its first year; to compare, this is more than triple the rate during the Obama administration and double that of Reagan.… Seguir leyendo »