On Monday, December the 22nd, you had the U.S. State Department announced the recall of 29

different U.S. ambassadors. These were the 29 U.S. ambassadors who led the U.S. consulates

in their respective countries of responsibility. Now, the initial reports of this shakeup

came in the form of, I guess you can call them, grumblings

from the ambassadors themselves. Here was Politico breaking the story with, again, those

ambassadors kind of speaking to the media under cover of anonymity.

The president of the American Foreign Service Association, the diplomats unions, said that

the group had been getting

anecdotal reports from ambassadors as far afield as East Asia and the Pacific who were told via

phone calls that they had to be gone by January 15th or January 16th. The envoys were not given

a reason. Around two dozen ambassadors are being told to leave their posts, the state

department official said, having been granted anonymity because the topic involves personnel issues.

Now, since this initial reporting, the U.S. State Department has come out and officially

confirm that these ambassadors are in fact being let go, and their 10 years will in fact be

ending in January. And as you probably

guessed, all of the affected ambassadors were actually appointed to their posts under Joe Biden.

Quote, The move is the latest major shake-up of the diplomatic ranks under President Donald Trump.

It is particularly unusual because it involves envoys who hail from the career

foreign service. While it is normal for new presidents to replace political appointees serving as

ambassadors, career diplomats are typically allowed to continue serving because it is understood

that by virtue of being in the foreign service, they will carry out the wishes of whoever is in the

White House,

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