I kind of wonder if like a whole bunch of countries are doing equivalent stuff with US local positions that seem more important than they are from a foreign perspective, like somewhere in the Midwest there’s a city council president who’s an unregistered agent of the Pakistani government

“Looks like the state treasurer might run for governor, don’t know much about the guy but man, dude devoted a REMARKABLE amount of his speech at the state fair to the importance of closer US-Romanian relations”