🇫🇷 French General Michel Yakovleff: "American officials need to stop snorting cocaine between meetings" France’s most quotable general just said out loud what every European defence official has been thinking privately for two months. General Michel Yakovleff, former NATO deputy chief of staff, has had enough. His assessment of American diplomatic coherence in the Iran negotiations: stop snorting cocaine between meetings. A French general saying, with the particular exhaustion of someone who has sat through too many briefings, that the US side appears chemically incapable of maintaining a consistent position from one room to the next. And he’s not wrong. In the past 72 hours alone, Washington announced direct talks, Tehran denied direct talks, Vance was going, then Vance wasn’t going, Kushner was going, the Iranians reached out, the Iranians said nothing was planned, and Hegseth called the whole operation “laser-focused.” On what, exactly, remains classified. The French have a word for this. Several, actually. None of them polite. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1
