State department’s incendiary charge into UK politics comes from Trump who leaned into personal feud with London mayor, Sadiq Khan
• Henry Nowak: controversy behind US intervention in a murder case that has rocked Britain
In the state department of past administrations, how to respond to an incendiary event such as the murder of the British student Henry Nowak would have required deliberations, memos and meetings. Given how it has roiled the UK and inflamed tensions over migration and race, the cautious diplomats at Foggy Bottom probably would have said nothing at all.
Now they tweet from the hip. “Ideological conditioning and two-tiered policing are glaring symptoms of civilizational decline,” the department’s official account posted on Thursday. “They must be rejected across the West.”
