Biden trimming diplomatic posts for top donors

By artappraiser on Sun, 01/31/2021 - 6:51pm |

NEW: President Biden is tempering the ambassadorial expectations of his big-dollar donors, signaling he won't hand out plum posts for months and hinting he'll nominate fewer of them than his predecessors. https://t.co/wrIAKonQPH axios
— Joseph Frusci (@JFrusci) January 31, 2021

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Daragahi has been keeping track of Biden admin. tea leaves on where different countries rank where and which are being treated as pariahs:

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has called FMs of (in order):
1) Canada
2) Mexico
3)Japan
4) South Korea
5) France
6) Germany
7) UK
8) NATO
9) Australia
10) Philippines
11) Thailand
12) Israel
13) Iraq
14) Afghanistan
15) EU
16) Italy
17) Jordan

No Saudi, UAE, or Egypt
— Borzou Daragahi (@borzou) January 28, 2021

Wow, I would not have guessed Anthony Blinken’s next call as coming before Turkey or Egypt:

18) South Africa https://t.co/XxOFbKyTms
— Borzou Daragahi (@borzou) January 28, 2021

Next up on Blinken's call list:

19) India
20) Pakistan
21) African Unionhttps://t.co/J1oViRMxlk
— Borzou Daragahi (@borzou) January 29, 2021

Next on Blinken's diplomatic call list:

22) New Zealand
23) Sweden (current chair of the @OSCE) pic.twitter.com/OH2BcBMePs
— Borzou Daragahi (@borzou) January 29, 2021

US Secretary of State Tony Blinken holds first call with a South American counterpart

24) Colombia pic.twitter.com/hZKd5u36pW
— Borzou Daragahi (@borzou) January 30, 2021

Neither Biden nor Blinken have reached out yet to Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE, Qatar, or Turkey. https://t.co/mDGFx8uw0w
— Borzou Daragahi (@borzou) February 1, 2021

Next on @SecBlinken’s list of calls abroad

25) Ukraine https://t.co/UGrlXlGFwY
— Borzou Daragahi (@borzou) February 2, 2021

LOL https://t.co/ToELobxmHI
— Borzou Daragahi (@borzou) February 2, 2021

First 25 calls abroad by @SecBlinken, in order

Canada
Mexico
Japan
S. Korea
France
Germany
UK
NATO
Australia
Philippines
Thailand
Israel
Iraq
Afghanistan
EU
Italy
Jordan
S. Africa
India
Pakistan
African Union
New Zealand
Sweden
Colombia
Ukraine
— Borzou Daragahi (@borzou) February 2, 2021

26) Switzerland, which represents US interests in Iran https://t.co/JcvUxYYEsh pic.twitter.com/UbsXdShN7B
— Borzou Daragahi (@borzou) February 2, 2021

“Imagine being the top diplomat in Brazil, run by a far-right leader who palled around with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort, and waiting forlornly by the phone only to hear on the news that Colombia got a call.”
https://t.co/2eVOc0AQvJ
— Borzou Daragahi (@borzou) February 3, 2021

by artappraiser on Wed, 02/03/2021 - 2:57am

Biden trimming diplomatic posts for top donors

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