Excellent follow on 🧵: I would add this from AUG 2023: "Last October, Colin Kahl, then the Under-Secretary of Defense for Policy at the Pentagon, sat in a hotel in Paris and prepared to make a call to avert disaster in Ukraine. 1/
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A staffer handed him an iPhone-in part to avoid inviting an onslaught of late-night texts & colorful emojis on Kahl’s own phone. Kahl had returned to his room, w/its heavy drapery & distant view of the Eiffel Tower, after a day of meetings w/officials from the United Kingdom, France, & Germany. 2/
The reason soon became apparent. “Even though Musk is not technically a diplomat or statesman, I felt it was important to treat him as such, given the influence he had on this issue,” Kahl told me. 4 & end/
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