Americans criticize US state department, with one person saying she felt ‘betrayed’ and treated like ‘an afterthought’
US citizens living in the Middle East say they’re “angry” at the US state department, criticising the Trump administration for having no “backup plan” to help them leave the region in the hours and days after the start of the US-Israel war on Iran.
One person, whose family voted for Trump for his anti-war stance, said she felt “betrayed” and what she perceived as the treatment of US citizens as “an afterthought”.
A large part of the benefit of being an American taxpayer when living or working abroad was that the USA would absolutely have your back diplomatically and use the power of the government to extricated you back to the USA if there were difficult diplomatic situations or in times of violence/war.
If trump is just giving those Americans the finger when they need this help, that would be a severe reduction in the benefit of continuing to be a US citizen outside of the USA.