“America First” is white nationalist KKK platform rooted in late 1800s nativism, which aligned with Nazi Germany, with members indicted for sedition.

Early last year, during the opening ⁠months of U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration, the State Department began preparations to shut down nearly a dozen foreign missions, media outlets reported at the time, as part of ​a broader push by the Republican president ⁠to transform the U.S. bureaucracy so that it is fully aligned with his “America First” agenda.

The most recent State announcement of closures follow the massive cost ballooning from losing the Iran war and running out of munitions, including embarrassing failure to defend military bases.

China maintains diplomatic presence in three of the five cities being abandoned, St. George’s, Nagoya, and Medan. Grenada is the same island where the US invaded in 1983 partly over Cuban-built airport infrastructure. Nagoya is Toyota country and the industrial core of a treaty ally. Medan sits on the Malacca Strait. The State Department is vacating contested ground.

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