My concern is more that the trial will look like a success, because you are offering newcomers an avenue to ‘do foreign affairs,’ without actually helping them enter the smoke-filled room. There have been previous efforts to let out some of the smoke, like this or, at risk of tooting my own horn, this or this. My concern is that the ambassador system instead creates an illusion of meaningful FA — because people are, at a literal level, paying attention to other regions — but doesn’t actually cultivate any sense into how other regions position their interests against each other and how we can position ours. Knowing what cultural events a region held in the last month doesn’t help at all if they suddenly come knocking on our door for support in a dispute with another one of our allies; it just keeps people busy with the illusion that it’s helpful.
Okay, fine, but just saying, I’d rather not visit this page more than I’d like… especially if it’s not that different from appointing advisors and hence not really even a defined ‘council’ per se?
That might be distinct from our particular staffer system, but that sounds a lot like the definition of the word ‘staff’? I think some of the criticisms of the Ministry of Media weren’t just about bureaucracy within the ministry, but also about how the ministry itself was bureaucracy. How would this newsletter benefit our region by being a government project, as opposed to someone’s passion project?