The problem with making foreign policy matter does not stem from the fact that administration officials, "dropped the ball on anything". It comes from the fact that the average citizen/player of the game just does not focus on those issues.
It is entirely the product of the Game Moderator's performance and the simple fact is that unless the Game Moderate is active, responsive and realistic, the whole system collapses. Assuming the Game Moderator is so, the problem then becomes getting people to pay attention to the Game Moderator. As someone who has joke about "being ignored", I would expected you would appreciate that situation. But why let a little personal experience get in the way of a good narrative.
The reason it requires almost getting into WW3 is not so that the administration will take notice (and I will note that since Fhtagn has taken office she has been focused on foreign policy from day one). It requires almost getting into World War 3 for the people to pay attention to foreign policy and read the GM thread.
Many do not know this, though you would Truman because you were on my NSC, but we almost went to war with Turkey when I was President. And avoiding that was a very difficult process, first off because of the situation at hand, but second of all because you don't know what basis or information the Game Moderator is basing his actions off of. Real life calculations based on power dynamics and economic interest therefore do not apply. There is a long history of GM's going too far and being ignored or forced to cancel said events. It is very easy to talk about "bad policies" or "improving relations" in the abstract, but this fails to acknowledge that whole world of foreign policy is dictated by what the Game Moderator throws your way, and this aspect of Game Moderation based on foreign crises whether it be with Turkey, or North Korea is new, and therefore uncharted ground for both the administration (be it mine or Fhtagn's) and the Game Moderator. If the GM wants a crisis to escalate, it will escalate regardless of whether or not you are "proactive".
And it is not something you can legislate or reform your way into. I have seen dozens of amendments and laws trying to structure the Game Moderator in a certain way and almost all of them have failed. The only way such a crisis system is fleshed out, is through experience and that is going to be messy the first time it plays out (Turkey really didn't play out for a variety of reasons).
Finally, as you have stated, you have served in cabinets. You have been in every cabinet since you left the Presidency. You were my Secretary of the Interior, you were DFW's, Goldwaters, and as far as I know, you still are Fhtagn's Attorney General.
If you thought these administrations were incompetent, why didn't you resign? Did you inform Dfw of your displeasure at the abolition of the NSC, which you
served on? As someone with your vast experience as President and Secretary of State, and serving as the incumbent
Attorney General, did you offer to assist President Fhtagn when she inherited this crisis? I mean after all, we almost went to the brink of World War III did we not, surely someone with your talents the next office over would offer them to avoid Armageddon?
