It's Thursday, August 8th, 2025 from Peachfish Productions.

It's the gist.

I'm Mike Pesca.

Recent spats, diplomatic spats, have not been handled diplomatically.

For instance, after Emmanuel Macron, I don't know if I'm pronouncing that right,

declared his or France's intention

to recognize the Palestinian state as a state. American ambassadors took to Twitter,

that you've got to say X, formerly Twitter, to assail him. U.S. ambassador to France,

Charles Kushner did not like it. U.S. Ambassador to France, Charles Kushner did not like it. U.S.

Ambassador to Israel. Mike Huckabee got sarcastic, quote, I can now exclusively disclose that France

will offer the French Riviera and the new nation will be called Frankenstein.

I don't get it, but that's okay. I do note that the New York

Times says the statements by the two American ambassadors were further evidence, if any were needed,

that old notions of diplomacy and alliances have evaporated since Mr. Trump took office. I have some

evidence that it was before, and it's not Trump causing it. He's the symptom.

It's the fact that our communications are so much quicker. It's getting in the way of

reasoned diplomacy. Similarly, Israel Katz, who is Israel's foreign minister. That's really the

best country for him to hold that job. After Spain and Ireland did what France

recently did, declare that they would be recognizing a Palestinian state, he put up some stock

footage of a couple dancing flamenco and sent a message to Spanish leadership, Hamas, thanks for your service.

But this goes way back, well, at least as far back as social media.

The Chinese have a lot of diplomats called the Wolf Warriors,

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