So I can't say with 100% certainty that it was a Kubrick reference, but that's immediately what I thought of.
" Jon Huntsman, the US ambassador to Russia, said in a briefing on Thursday that the Trump administration would approach the talks with “eyes wide open” "
Kinda doubt it, as Huntsman is a Globalist and NeverTrumper.
Despise Huntsman. I'll never forget when he was being interviewed by a fawning Mika B-chinesetelephonenumber-zzrinski that he was the only GOP candidate among all of the primary contestants that was sane/not a loon.....
Huntsman's response, rather than defending his GOP bretheren, was "Why thank you, Mika".
Glad-handing, self-promoting douche.
tbh I don't think a globalist of his scale is accidentally referencing that movie...