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The Comedy Issue

Satire Inc.

Because four more years of funny hair and megalomaniac men requires a sense of humor we are starting a satirical section.

Send us your observed foreign affairs faux pas, first diplomatic posting abroad jokes, and diplomatic barbs.

We, alongside ChatGPT, will transform them into gold. Like the alchemists. We try to help. Particularly because the newly nominated US Secretary of State has a steep learning curve when it comes to the history of diplomacy. We hope this helps.

That is THE UN BRIEF’s mission: to inform, to entertain, to delight.

P.S. Did you know that the satirical publication The Onion, bought Alex Jones’ Infowars, the conspiracy theory, white supremacy proponent, fake news site? For peanuts. Yeah. To transform those nuggets of stupidity and racism into parody.

Now for our compilation of the…drum roll.

The Real Doges of Diplomacy

*the ones you need to know. not the arrivistes of today.

Listing all the Doges of Venice chronologically is a challenge because there were 120 Doges who ruled - from the founding of the Venetian Republic around 697 AD until its fall in 1797 AD. Scroll all the way down. It is worth it.