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So what will she be doing in this election year?
AmericanKulak says
She's a coup expert. Just saying.
You mean like Coupe DeVille?
If career security-state workers are the essence of the ‘deep state,’ then Victoria Nuland is the Deep State’s own avatar. Nuland has never held down any job outside of government. She’s worked for the State Department for 35 years, apart from a brief interregnum during Trump’s Presidency. She’s worked for six different Presidents and ten Secretaries of State in both Republican and Democrat administrations.
But Nuland wouldn’t work for Trump; she ‘retired’ in 2017 (for the first time). For four years she safely nestled into a liberal DC think tank, and spent many relaxing months touring the alphabet networks as a geopolitics expert, publicly whining about Trump’s policies on Russian and Ukraine. Her retirement didn’t take.
Right as soon as Biden evicted Trump in 2021, like a particularly nasty invasive species of poisonous toad, Nuland hopped right back into government. It was like when the Australians neutered all those wild cats and then the rat population unexpectedly exploded. Having neutered Trump, they opened the State Department’s back screen door and — holy giant frogs! — there she was, right on the steps, fat and happy, a pink little mouse tail dangling out of the corner of her cavernous mouth.
Specifically, they found Nuland suddenly squatting in the office of the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, the third-ranking official in the State Department, and the highest-ranking member of the United States Foreign Service. Just like that, she was back, another unpleasant development that the Russians surely noticed.
But the Proxy War pulled Nuland into the public’s eye for the first time. Before the Russians invaded Ukraine, she’d remained largely invisible, pulling strings from behind the deep state curtain. For decades, Nuland had been quietly hopping all over Ukrainian politics, gobbling up political enemies and gulping down small, innocent Eastern European impediments, both before and after her career’s unfortunate Trump-caused interruption.
It’s hard to overstate the sea change that Nuland’s resignation signals at the State Department. Career propagandist Anthony Blinken penned a nauseating eulogy for the toadlike State Department professional’s 35-year career, uploaded this week to the State Department website. Behold this revolting, hagiographic paragraph, which described Nuland (Victoria, “Toria”) as if she were dead or something:
"[I]t’s Toria’s leadership on Ukraine that diplomats and students of foreign policy will study for years to come. Her efforts have been indispensable to confronting Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, marshaling a global coalition to ensure his strategic failure, and helping Ukraine work toward the day when it will be able to stand strongly on its own feet – democratically, economically, and militarily."
Wow. Ensuring Putin’s strategic failure? How, exactly, has Putin strategically failed? When — exactly — can Ukraine expect to stand strongly on its own feet, democratically, economically, or militarily?
The truth is, Nuland is inextricably connected to the entire odious Ukrainian project. It could even be called her brainchild. It is a poorly-concealed secret that Nuland coordinated Ukraine’s 2014 Maidan coup, which started the whole ball of war rolling. A lifelong Russia hawk — she deeply hates everything Russian — Nuland must also have known what the CIA was up to in Ukraine.
Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians are now dead as a direct result of Toria’s own political ambitions for Ukraine.
According to the announcement, pending permanent replacement, Under Secretary of State for Management John Bass will take Nuland’s place. It is highly suggestive that Bass was personally involved in the US surrender in Afghanistan; he was literally stationed in Kabul in 2021 during the troop withdrawal as a logistical coordinator. In other words, John has recent experience helping get US assets out of theatre before it is overwhelmed by the enemy.
Who knows. We won’t speculate further, except to observe that, given Nuland’s hasty, unplanned exit, it seems clear an irreconcilable difference of opinion must have arisen. Maybe Nuland’s resignation was even requested. The alternative is that despite surviving internal State Department politics for three and a half decades, Nuland finally had enough, and quit right in the middle of achieving her lifelong ambitions and at the worst possible time for Ukraine.
Whichever, they cannot possibly replace the institutional knowledge of someone like Nuland. So a major shift in US policy toward Ukraine seems inevitable, whether officially-announced or not. Maybe that’s why Olena Zelensky turned down Biden’s State of the Union invitation, and not actually because of any catfight with the widow Navalny, as amusing as that mental picture would be.
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