Diplomat salary report – 2024

A hundred million or so Americans will head to the polls to choose their next president tomorrow (Tuesday), joining the record 75 million folks who’ve already voted. Meanwhile, foreign diplomats will head in to work at Washington’s ~175 foreign embassies to offer their home governments some final thoughts on where they see this all headed. […]

The pro-Western and mostly ceremonial president of Georgia stepped up to the palace’s lectern in Tbilisi last night (Sunday) and delivered an extraordinary statement: That’s because Georgia’s electoral commission had just announced that the country’s Russia-friendly ruling party (Georgian Dream) had won 54% of the vote, an outcome the president was now openly rejecting as “Georgia’s subordination to Russia.” Meanwhile the […]

A couple of highly classified US intelligence documents somehow landed in the media over the weekend, with a pro-Iran site first highlighting them on Friday. What happened? Some of the coverage has breathlessly described the leaked docs as Israel’s “plans” to attack Iran, so you’d be forgiven for thinking maybe they were some kind of Looney Tunes […]

Israel has announced the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, the group’s latest overall leader and the architect of the Hamas attacks on Israel last October 7th. The co-founder of the Hamas armed wing, Sinwar spent more than two decades in an Israeli prison for his role in the 1989 kidnapping and murder of two Israeli soldiers and four Palestinians […]