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On Elon Musk, NASA has called for an investigation of his contacts with Putin. Among other things, Putin reportedly asked Musk not to activate his Starlink satellite internet service over Taiwan as a favor to Chinese leader Xi Jinping. https://www.newsweek.com/putin-reportedly-asked-elon-musk-not-activate-starlink-over-taiwan-1974733?form=MG0AV3

On Ross Perot, my old boss Ambassador Malcolm Toon had a few choice words. In 1992, I saw Toon when he came to Washington to meet with Ross Perot, who was looking him over as a possible Secretary of State in a Perot Administration. Toon politely begged off, noting to me in private: “The guy is nuts.”

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Oct 27Liked by James L Bruno

I'm not in the diplomatic community but I'm someone who pays attention to history and foreign policy and digs deeper than the latest public outrage. I've been so frustrated about these meddling megalomaniacal monied morons getting involved in things they lack the intelligence (of both varieties) to handle.

I try to push back on the current narratives of "Elon is a genius!" or "Biden is funding genocide!" with "Things are more complicated and involve way more than just the parties and information in the news" to no avail. I don't know how we educate the public about history, civics, public and foreign policy when we're struggling to teach basic reading and math and experts are demonized.

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It'll take a long haul to fix the problem. Let's hope it happens.

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