Brinj grew up as what we call a foreign service brat. He was reading his father's unclassified cables back to America when he was 15 years old. It suddenly struck him that the relationship between the US and Portugal, though on paper it's a symmetric relationship, there's something asymmetric there. "I sort of realized that actually the purpose of the US diplomatic mission in Portugal is not to relate between equals"

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