RETIRING OR JUST CHANGING HATS?
DOES THIS MOVE SIGNAL NEW ELECTION OPTICS?
Yesterday it was announced that Victoria Nuland, 63, was retiring from her position as under secretary of state for political affairs. As yet, we don't know if this is a step down or a move in a different direction, both for her and the Biden administration Ukraine policy. Over the years she has made several controversial remarks that revealed the roots of this country's involvement in Ukraine and Russian politics.
Nuland the daughter of immigrant Jewish Russian parents was chief of staff to Deputy Secretary of state Strobe Talbott, during the Clinton administration, 1993-1996.
She was an advisor to Dick Cheney 2003-2006. and was involved with policy in Iraq.
Under Obama she was U.S. ambassador to NATO. 2005-2008
Special Envoy for conventional Armed forces in Europe 2011.
Asst. secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs 2013.
In 2014 she was involved with the ouster of the elected President of Ukraine and bragged that the U.S. had spent $5 billion to bring about this coup.
She hand picked the new government of Ukraine as was revealed by leaked conversations with her and other state department people.
2016 to 2020, she worked at several think tank organizations to fashion U.S. foreign policy.
2021 she became under secretary of state for political affairs. Many believe she was instrumental in the coup in Ukraine in 2014 and the ensuing arming of Ukraine for war with Russia. She has been considered the architect of the Ukraine Russian policy.
She made statements that intimated that the U.S. was instrumental in blowing up the Nord-stream pipeline.
She recently admitted that the Russian government was not the kind of government that she wanted.
The recent imminent collapse of her Ukraine project has put her policies under close review and many believed that she desired to continue escalation no matter the consequences.
Only time will tell what is the future for Nuland, will she go away or is she just on her way to bigger and better things.
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