STANFORD, California — “I wish him well,†tweeted Michael McFaul, on the day Jon Huntsman was offered the delicate job of ambassador to Russia from the United States.
It’s the job McFaul held from January 2012 to February 2014, when he resigned after 24 months of the most unrelenting workplace stress. It’s unlikely that Moscow will treat Huntsman — Donald Trump’s man — as inhospitably as it treated McFaul, whose outspokenness on democracy so riled the Kremlin that he became the object of its crudest ire.
McFaul retreated from bare-knuckle Moscow to the calm of Stanford University, where he’d taught before he …read more
Source: European Voice
