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2017-08-01 Great White North
Why are there so many US diplomats working in Russia?
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Posted by Skidmark 2017-08-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top

#1 They are Red Diaper Babies getting close to their dream?
"We will always have Paris Moscow." --Casablanca
Posted by magpie 2017-08-01 00:24||   2017-08-01 00:24|| Front Page Top

#2 They are Red Diaper Babies getting close to their dream?

Russians "betrayed" their dream - so, they're there to settle accounts.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-08-01 02:37||   2017-08-01 02:37|| Front Page Top

#3 Better question...
Why are Soviets running the US government for the Democrats?
Posted by newc 2017-08-01 03:34||   2017-08-01 03:34|| Front Page Top

#4 Now, or since the early 1900s?
Posted by Pappy 2017-08-01 08:52||   2017-08-01 08:52|| Front Page Top

#5 The visa lines for Canada were too long?
Posted by Skidmark 2017-08-01 09:24||   2017-08-01 09:24|| Front Page Top

#6 State needs serious culling.
Posted by Whiskey Mike 2017-08-01 12:10||   2017-08-01 12:10|| Front Page Top

#7 ...anyone with Harvard, Yale, Princeton, or Dartmouth on their resume.
Posted by Procopius2k 2017-08-01 12:52||   2017-08-01 12:52|| Front Page Top

#8 Wait... do we still have to pay them?
Posted by DarthVader 2017-08-01 16:10||   2017-08-01 16:10|| Front Page Top

#9 WTF do you need 1500 people at an embassy???? Let's look at other embassies and pull the plug on the hangers on.

In Moscow, 775 were cut loose. Got to cost the USGovt $100K apiece, so we are talking $77.5 million.

Now that is a sizeable chunk of change. How many in the UK, how many in Canada, Germany, France? Etc etc. Chop chop chop.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2017-08-01 16:21||   2017-08-01 16:21|| Front Page Top

#10 From the article "Of the 1,279 people who worked at the embassy in 2013, according to a 2013 inspector general report, 934 were locally hired."

A few points;
--There are 4 facilities in RU - 1 x Embassy and 3 x Consulates.
--I could check but I think the number of US Direct Hire Diplomats in RU is about 800 to 900.
--I'm not defending DOS just trying to show ground truth.
Posted by Bangkok Billy 2017-08-01 17:39||   2017-08-01 17:39|| Front Page Top

#11 Thank you BB. I was stunned at the number. So say 900 minus 775? Good start I'd say!

Oh, wait, are they allowed to come back to the US?
Posted by Whiskey Mike 2017-08-01 17:46||   2017-08-01 17:46|| Front Page Top

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