Trump’s envoy for the whole lot has no diplomatic expertise. Is it a weak point or a power?
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Donald Trump desires to dealer peace in two of the world’s most intractable wars: Gaza and Ukraine. However this week, each crises have escalated – and the person he’s tasked with fixing them has no earlier diplomatic expertise.
Steve Witkoff, an actual property mogul and Trump’s closest confidante, is now on the centre of American international coverage because the ‘envoy for the whole lot’.
On immediately’s International Story, we communicate with the BBC’s State Division Correspondent, Tom Bateman, and ask whether or not Witkoff’s unconventional fashion is a weak point – or a power.
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