PRestige or punishment? The National Security Advisor of the United States Mike Waltz, removed from his duties on 1is May, quickly found work as an ambassador of the United States to the UN.
On paper, while the Republican was caught in the turmoil of the “signalgate” – a matter which saw the Trump administration mistakenly reveal to a journalist for The Atlantic Sensitive security information via a conversation held on the signal platform -, Mike Waltz seems to get out of this crisis from above. After all, the Blanche house relay to the United Nations is the standard bearer of the world’s leading power in front of the world. Not bad.
But when you know the contempt that maintains the 47e President of the United States about the international institution, the appointment takes on punitive, especially given the importance of the position Mike Waltz abandons. Under Joe Biden, the national security advisor Jake Sullivan was a centerpiece of the US strategic system. His republican successor, who aspired to the same importance within the Trump administration, could consider this appointment as a closet.
Pending the announcement of his replacement, it is Marco Rubio, the faithful Secretary of State of the President, who will hold the post of National Security Advisor.
Morocco advantage
Placard or not, this evolution of the situation could constitute an opportunity for Morocco and its diplomacy. If Mike Waltz has never spoken on the issue of the Sahara, the American diplomat who sat in the United Nations before him, Dorothy Shea, specializing in relations between Washington and the Middle East, did not seem particularly worn on the case either.
But facing Algeria which sits on the Security Council, Morocco has taken a step ahead in proximity to Donald Trump’s new man in New York. At the beginning of April, when the world was in shock from the customs announcements of the White House Master, Nasser Bourita, Minister of Foreign Affairs, had undertaken a visit across the Atlantic to present himself to the members of the new administration and ensure the continuity of the American posture on the Sahara.
On this occasion, the leader of Moroccan diplomacy met Mike Waltz during an interview on camera. If we do not know the content of the exchanges between the two men, the establishment of a contact creates a line between the cabinet of Nasser Bourita and the new representative of Washington to the UN which, let us remember, is the “Penholder” (delegation which writes the first version of a text of text) of the Minurso, the UN Mission in Sahara. Morocco advantage.
