'Nothing to See Here': Diplomats Urged to Play Down Release of Ukraine Aid

[dawg day]

1. The diplomat sounds quite sardonic here.

He sounds like he is expressing his own annoyance and recognizing the similar feelings of the recipients of the message- "Yeah, we know that the SoS and president have been extorting by withholding this... but we're not supposed to notice, remember!"

I do not know how all these civil servants who work for agencies and departments, who might have spent a decade trying to help relations between Ukraine and the US, deal with all this Trumpian perfidy-- and their own leaders are in on it.