# The Trump Administration: The Clusterfuck Continues (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [December 1, 2025, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298 "2025-12-01T20:32:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 9368
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Another event whose profile, IMHO, should be elevated a bit: > **[What’s behind the US decision not to invite OSCE election observers](https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/global-elections/the-us-is-not-inviting-osce-election-observers-heres-why/92119305)** > > Ahead of November mid-term elections, the US has not invited any observers from the – currently Swiss-chaired – OSCE. > Ahead of its mid-term elections, the US has done something more typically associated with Russia: it has not invited any observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Here’s who we’re talking about: > **[Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organization_for_Security_and_Co-operation_in_Europe)** > > The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is a regional security-oriented intergovernmental organization comprising member states in Europe, North America, and Asia. Its mandate includes issues such as arms control, the promotion of human rights, freedom of the press, and free and fair elections. It employs around 3,460 people, mostly in its field operations but also in its secretariat in Vienna, Austria, and its institutions. It has observer status at the United Nations. T... > The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is a regional security-oriented intergovernmental organization comprising member states in Europe, North America, and Asia. Its mandate includes issues such as arms control, the promotion of human rights, freedom of the press, and free and fair elections. It employs around 3,460 people, mostly in its field operations but also in its secretariat in Vienna, Austria, and its institutions.[2] It has observer status at the United Nations.[3] It’s 50-ish years old. The two inveterate gadfly member states are Russia and Belarus. While I didn’t find much discussion of the OSCE on the Dope, there – of course – is some: > [@OSCE: Belarus election "not free, not fair." Now what?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osce-belarus-election-not-free-not-fair-now-what/349171): > > Yesterday’s presidential election in Belarus returned a purported 82% of the vote for incumbent Alexander Lukashenko, but observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe say the election did not meet international standards for a free and fair election. The opposition is calling for a new vote. [http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/03/20/belarus.poll.results/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/03/20/belarus.poll.results/index.html) In view of what happened in Ukraine in 2004 – the “Orange Revolution,” which succeeded with internation… This, to me, is a HUGE “shocked, but totally unsurprised” event, virtually lost in the Sturm and Drang of the Trump Administration. But a very, very bad sign. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298)._