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the diplomats felt they could not share their fears internally
The quoted source does not say the diplomats were unable to share their concerns internally. It says they did make internal risk warnings and assessments, but those warnings were later shelved.
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This post overstates what the cited passage says.
In the source being quoted, the author says he and another official did make internal "risk warnings and situation assessments," and that those warnings were then "deliberately shelved." That means the concern was in fact shared internally; the problem described is that the warning was not acted on or elevated, not that the diplomats were unable to voice it internally at all.
The next sentence — saying that if they had insisted on their view, they might have been accused of disrupting unified decision-making — supports a narrower point: they may have felt pressure against pushing the warning further. But it does not support the broader claim that they "could not share their fears internally," because the source explicitly says they already had shared those assessments inside the system.
So the post mischaracterizes the quoted passage by turning "we made warnings that were shelved" into "they could not share their fears internally."
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- Inside China's Embassy in Kyiv as War Broke Out
The article says the diplomats made "risk warnings and situation assessments" that were "deliberately shelved," indicating the concerns were shared internally but not adopted.