No Toilet Paper and No Privacy: Returning to the Office, Federal Workers Walk Into Chaos<\/a>“). It turned out to be fascinating reading: \u201cFor some federal employees, returning to the office meant expanding their duties to include cleaning toilets and taking out garbage. For others, it meant traveling to a federal building only to continue working via video conference. Some went to the office only to be sent back home. Others arrived early and had nowhere to sit.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\nConclusion: A good idea in theory to make the government more efficient, in practice can create chaos and create it where there was none!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So far, the new American administration violates the classic, most elementary laws and principles of management: it tries to do everything at once, does not set priorities and does not think through its ideas to the end. Trump\u2019s actions in the Ukrainian direction are not, and cannot be, immune from this administrative failure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Take, for example, the issue of the ceasefire in the Black Sea, which, theoretically, should already be in force. The spokesman for the Ukrainian Navy, Dmitry Pletchenkov, stated: \u201cIn order for the terms of any agreement to be observed, it must first be properly formalized. Since there is no standardized document, a framework that would indicate all the requirements, limits, conditions so far, therefore, it is difficult to talk about compliance with any agreements.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Usually, the statements of the Ukrainian military are a mixture of propaganda, a desire to mislead and outright false information. But in this case, we are probably dealing with a rare exception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trump\u2019s foreign policy team, which works, among other things, in the Ukrainian direction, so far demonstrates both managerial inexperience and managerial immaturity. The story of the accidental inclusion of a hostile journalist in a secret conversation, which damaged the reputation of a \u201ckey\u201d member of the US president\u2019s environment, such as his national security adviser, is not an exception, not an accident, but an indication of the existence of structural problems. And some of these problems can already be described: an attempt to announce a \u201cgrand revolution\u201d while simultaneously failing or unwilling to adequately assess the depth and scale of the problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, despite its current dysfunction, Trump\u2019s America is the country that holds the key to resolving the crisis in Ukraine and most other international crises. Trump cannot be removed from the equation since, by definition, he is at the center of all equations. And this is true even for such a self-sufficient country as Russia. Russia withstood the onslaught of Biden\u2019s America. Russia will also withstand the onslaught of Trump\u2019s America. But if there is an opportunity to avoid this, to find a compromise that suits Moscow and Trump, then we must seize this opportunity, despite all the practical difficulties and trials of this path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the very recent past, Trump seemed effective. Now it does not seem so anymore. And this dramatically complicates the work of Russian diplomacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And when the elephants dance, the ants pay for it\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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