A Play-By-Play of the Russian Diplomat Expulsion
Washington and Moscow are trapped in a bizarre cycle of attempting to reconcile incompatible world views while simultaneously gutting their diplomatic arsenals.
U.S.-Russia relations have taken a turn for the worse. Washington has gotten fed up with Moscow’s malign behavior, so it has expelled a bunch of diplomats. Moscow retaliated with some expulsions of its own. Not to be outdone, Washington expels even more diplomats. Moscow gets the last word, however, by ordering all Russian and third-country employees at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow to cease their work, leaving the diplomats to take care of their own driving, cooking, and cleaning. This has essentially slowed the flow of embassy operations to a trickle. Amidst the deteriorating relations, Washington and Moscow send their chief diplomats to Reykjavik to salvage what they could of the relationship and attempt to forge some sort of compromise in the few places where the two count
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