Pity the Foreign Ministry

2 June, 2026. As in Trump’s first term as US president, so even more so in his second, the Department of State has been shorn of offices that were politically out of favour, bypassed elsewhere, and generally demoralised and run down. But it is not alone among foreign ministries, especially those of so-called ‘strongman’ states. The post Pity the Foreign Ministry appeared first on G. R. Berridge .