Diplomacy By Tweet

(The Man With The Golden Toilet)

Some time ago, with regard to near this region, I said how challenging it was

to conduct foreign policy when this was being done by instant Tweets.

What I could not say (in that environment) was the impossibility of allies

assisting (in crises) when they, more likely than not, will be flushed down

the toilet in some subsequent new Tweet, simply to 'rubbish' them and to 'kick'

them into place at the bottom of this Man's toilet s**t pile.

This is the state of diplomacy in the age of reckless Tweets and statements by

world leaders who should know better.

I will add to that, this:

The majority of Western citizens working and living in the Arab world do not

enjoy the option,the luxury nor the protection of travel in titanium-protected vehicles.

Most do ordinary jobs in business, education, health and humanitarian support

with others in protective security roles.

I often wonder if these (so-called) politicians would be so cavalier with their choice

of words if it was their own sons and daughters who were the likely 'high-value'

(to quote U.S. media statements) vulnerable targets in such contentious Muslim

lands following such intemperate statements?

Given the irrelevancy of international law and Tweets to bomb 'the s**t' out of religious

cultural and historical sites in Iran, what message does this send to North Korea if it disarms?;

indeed what message does this send to nuclear powers such as India and Pakistan?

I cannot claim to know Pakistan but I know the love and devotion Hindus attach to

their sacred temples and historical sites. That in an instant of displeasure of a future

powerful tyrant, that he or she will destroy temples and raise the shrines of Saints

to the ground in an instant - if they, as nuclear powers, do not possess the means to

deter through terrifying retribution - must now inevitably feature in all decision making.

I can only (privately) speculate as to what relevance such countries will ever give in

the future to signing up to any foreign-sponsored (or Western-encouraged)

non-proliferation treaty given the new mediaeval 'scorched-earth' policy being promoted and turning

what was a single assassination (lawful or otherwise) into a truly international emergency

as the profound effects of such continuing intemperate diplomacy by Tweet policies on the

future of security policies of non-Muslim nuclear, chemical and biological weapons nations (and the ineffectiveness of international law and international diplomacy) are all analysed worldwide by such entities.

© Patrick Emek, 2020