https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2021/04/24/pinkerton-carter-2-0-joe-gets-played-by-a-communist-dictator-just-like-jimmy/

Pinkerton: Carter 2.0 — Joe Gets Played by a Communist Dictator Just Like Jimmy

And as an aside, we can see, here, a familiar and perverse dynamic in our diplomatic dealings with adversaries: Once the U.S. foreign-policy establishment—we might dub it Big Diplomacy—gets fixed on a goal, such as the ratification of a treaty with a foe, it tends to get so preoccupied with that goal that, Ahab-like, it waves away counter-indicators that argue against the goal. Indeed, Big Diplomacy often finds itself covering up contrary evidence, so as not to allow the stopping of “progress.”

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Comes with a history lesson. Long, but good read.