DODE: The Department of Diplomatic Enforcement

Rather than put out statements begging to be in the room, there’s a way the British government could still – despite its diplomatic faux pas – add immense value to the new US Administration regarding Ukraine.

There’s one enormous role it could play, that the US has explicitly said it does not wish to manage; that’s an international opportunity ripe for the taking.

Presidential Envoy for Special Missions, Ric Grenell:

“One lesson I learned from the [2020] Kosovo-Serbia negotiations is that… The most important part, when you finally get two sides to come together to agree on something, is the follow up and holding them to account. The people that need to do that are the ones who negotiated, because they know where the weaknesses are… I wish, after we had made our big agreement, that there would have been more people holding both sides to account. There was never a team to push them… The failures of Minsk were we didn’t have any follow up. Once it was signed, a whole bunch of people celebrated and moved on. That would be different under a Trump Administration. There would be absolute holding people to their commitments… I think the tough part starts as soon as you sign the agreement.”

With negotiations now coming together between Presidents Trump and Putin, who’s poised to do the marathon work of holding each side to their commitments?

To accompany DOGE, there ought to be a new body…

The Department of Diplomatic Enforcement

Help make the new US Administration history’s most accomplished peacemaking Administration (which the US President has emphatically stated he wants) – and ensure that agreements struck last.

There’s a moment of malleability now to forge such an Office…

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