Is Secretary Blinken’s Bumbling Diplomacy Keeping an American Under the Kremlin’s Lock and Key?

Top diplomat’s mixed messaging on nuclear arms treaty undercuts clout in other areas.

AP/Alexander Zemlianichenko, file
A Wall Street Journal reporter, Evan Gershkovich, stands in a glass cage in a courtroom at the Moscow City Court in Russia. AP/Alexander Zemlianichenko, file

America watched and cringed as President Biden took another unceremonious tumble last week, the ignominy of the president’s fall matched only by the reflexive apologia of more than a few of the nation’s leading scribes. But away from the headlines someone else has been stumbling with possibly more consequential impact — the Secretary of State, Antony Blinken.

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