The art of dismissing without really punishing. As a good business manager, Donald Trump did not want to (too) humiliate Mike Waltz, national security advisor, party, Thursday, of his post. This former special forces officer had agreed to take responsibility for the signalgate, this case of leaks from military plans intended to strike the Houthi rebels in Yemen revealed at the end of March by The Atlantic. Were included in this long discussion on signal messaging, vice-president JD Vance and the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, under pressure for weeks.
Waltz moves to New York. For the United Nations, an institution honored by the American president, where he will become an ambassador of the United States, an important position in America, which has almost wallet value in the office. The headquarters had been vacant since Elise Stefanik, MP for New York at the Congress, had given up her appointment to secure the very close republican majority in the House of Representatives. While waiting to find a replacement for him, Trump instructed the current Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, to do the interim as a national security adviser. A cumulation never seen since Henry Kissinger under Nixon over fifty years ago. Rubio, no doubt the least compatible with Russia of the Trump administration, is therefore temporarily promoted, when the United States has just finalized an agreement on Ukrainian minerals with kyiv which should guarantee greater military aid from Washington.
The American press believes that Steve Witkoff, an absolute novice in diplomacy a few months ago, and that the republican president had appointed as an emissary for negotiations with Russia, and with Iran for its nuclear program, could, at the end of this interim, take over the Waltz post.
