Why US diplomats tweet from the hip in response to Henry Nowak murder

The US state department’s official account stated that ‘two-tiered policing’ in the UK was a ‘glaring symptom of civilizational decline’. Photograph: Christopher Walls/Sopa Images/Shutterstock View image in fullscreen The US state department’s official account stated that ‘two-tiered policing’ in the UK was a ‘glaring symptom of civilizational decline’. Photograph: Christopher Walls/Sopa Images/Shutterstock Analysis Why US diplomats tweet from the hip in response to Henry Nowak murder Andrew Roth in Washington State department’s incendiary charge into UK politics comes from Trump who leant into personal feud with London mayor, Sadiq Khan Henry Nowak: controversy behind US intervention in a murder case that has rocked Britain In the state department of past administrations, how to respond to an incendiary event such as the murder of the British student Henry Nowak would have required deliberations, memos and meetings. Given how it has roiled the UK and inflamed tensions over migration and race, the cautious diplomats at Foggy Bottom likely would have said nothing at all. Now they tweet from the hip. “Ideological conditioning and two-tiered policing are glaring symptoms of civilizational decline ,” the department’s official account posted on Thursday. “They must be rejected across the West.” This is, after all, the state department that hosted the far-right provocateur Tommy Robinson for a tour earlier this year, has crowdsourced targets for deportation on X, and portrayed the UK – as well as much of Europe – as an ideological prison that celebrates censorship. And it is one that has returned time and again to a thesis shared by much of Europe’s right: that mass migration has threatened the cohesion of western society and now must be reversed. Some US diplomats believe the UK had this coming. Senior Labour figures including the deputy prime minister, David Lammy, voiced their support for George Floyd , a Black man killed by a White police officer in Minnesota in 2020. Now, they argue, US officials are simply doing the same and speaking their conscience, this time to defend a White man against what they say is the scourge of immigration and double standards. The charge into UK politics has been led by elected officials including the vice-president, JD Vance, culture warriors at the state department, and one of the world’s richest men – Elon Musk – who has posted enthusiastically in support of Robinson and the recent Unite the Kingdom anti-immigration rallies. “Send the video to everyone you know showing how heinously Nowak was treated by the police in his dying moments,” Musk wrote in one of several posts on X, the social network he owns. 0:34 Keir Starmer accuses Elon Musk of interfering in UK politics over Henry Nowak murder – video On Friday, Keir Starmer responded : “Musk, again, has been interfering in our politics in the last few days, trying to whip up division – that is not who we are in Britain.” The US animus toward the modern face of the