It’s a wildly unrealistic show in many ways, but I do suspect one part of it is quite accurate:
Heated, pointed, clear-eyed, bare-fisted arguments behind closed doors become minuscule, subtle gestures in public statements. An anonymous source saying “the president raised his voice during the meeting” is more or less diplomacy’s version of a public face punch.
What •actually• got said behind closed doors? We can only guess.
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