Ric: my advice, after a long ambassadorial career: explain your own country’s policies, and lobby the host country - but never tell the host country what to do, if you want to stay out of trouble. Germans are eager to listen, but they will resent instructions.

— Wolfgang Ischinger (@ischinger) May 9, 2018

One of Germany’s top diplomats tutors the new US Ambassador to Germany https://t.co/ySOHk3Q1hV

— Julianne Smith (@Julie_C_Smith) May 9, 2018