It feels odd being so focused on something apart from the budget on the morning of normally one of the most important days of the year. The foreign policy question has become so all-consuming here because of the uncertainty, first on the US side, and then in terms of the messiness of the SA response.

I think it is important to remember that the US has not as an institutional machine got its ducks in a row yet — pending investigations that are ongoing for another month or so. The fact that these investigations shouldn’t throw up any new information is beside the point. ..

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