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Denzil_DC

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1. I don't buy this at all, though I can see why the stereotype is appealing to an American audience.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Mon Jul 15, 2019, 07:09 AM

Jul 2019

Diplomatic communications can often be couched in undiplomatic language as they're not intended for public exposure. Other diplomats have indicated that there was nothing in Darroch's briefings that would have looked out of place in their own.

I mean, just look at the tranche of US diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks in 2010-2011: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contents_of_the_United_States_diplomatic_cables_leak

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Critiquing Trump was not the problem. Failing to use British doublespeak was. [View all] Eugene Jul 2019 OP

I don't buy this at all, though I can see why the stereotype is appealing to an American audience. Denzil_DC Jul 2019 #1