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2024-03-06 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
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I wash my hands. Why Victoria Nuland decided to resign
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Evgenia Kondakova
[REGNUM] In the coming weeks, one of the most influential and experienced American diplomats, whose role in shaping the anti-Russian course in the world is difficult to overestimate, will retire. We are talking about US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland. In breaking the news, her boss, State Department chief Antony Blinken, in a statement, highlighted Nuland's contributions to confronting Russia in Ukraine, building a global coalition to ensure the "strategic defeat " of Moscow and "helping Ukraine approach the day when it can stand on its own two feet." - in democratic, economic and military relations."
“It is Victoria’s leadership in Ukraine that students and diplomats will study for many years to come,” emphasized the head of the American foreign policy department.
And there really is something to study: during a diplomatic career spanning more than 35 years, Nuland dealt with strategically important issues and had a direct impact on the entire system of international relations.
It so happened that Nuland’s life from a young age was closely connected with the Soviet direction, and subsequently with the Russian and Ukrainian ones. In the early 1980s, she worked for a couple of months as a counselor at the Young Guard pioneer camp in Odessa, where she came as an exchange student, and later as a translator on a Soviet fishing boat, and during those 8 months she not only learned the Russian language, but also learned to drink vodka.
Either this is just a coincidence, or the call of blood did its job: the diplomat’s grandfather came from the territory of modern Ukraine (Chernivtsi region), and his grandmother came from Belarus (Grodno region).
Nuland also had a small Asian chapter in her political career: 3 years after graduating from the Faculty of Public Policy at Brown University, in 1988, she went to Mongolia, but there she also dealt with issues of relations with the USSR. And then the USSR disappeared. In the turning point of 1991, she was awaiting assignment to the American Embassy in Moscow, where Victoria was to establish ties with the government of the first President of the Russian Federation, Boris Yeltsin.
Probably, the connections were established so successfully that just two years later Nuland was expected to be promoted. She was transferred to the central office of the State Department. As Deputy US Secretary of State Strobe Talbott, she oversaw the Russian direction, nuclear disarmament of Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan. Then, from 1997–1999, she served as deputy director for former USSR affairs at the State Department.
With the advent of the new century, Nuland’s activities were not so closely connected with Russia: from 2003 to 2005, she was the US permanent representative to NATO, and in 2011 she became the press secretary of the State Department.
But still, the most striking episode of her career is connected with Ukraine.
In 2013, when she was appointed Deputy Secretary of State for Political Affairs, protests began in Kyiv. Activists demanding the resignation of President Viktor Yanukovych were not only supported by employees of the American embassy, Nuland regularly flew in from Washington, walked along the Maidan and handed out either cookies or pies there, which turned into a meme.
At the same time, the diplomat would later argue in an interview with CNN that the United States “definitely did not spend money to support the Maidan, it was a spontaneous movement,” although she admitted that since 1991, to support “the aspirations of the Ukrainian people, who want to have a strong, democratic government, which represents his interests,” sent about $5 billion.
True, the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama, in an interview with CNN on February 1, 2015, openly stated that it was the United States that “mediated the transition of power in Ukraine.”
No matter how Nuland tried to disavow the involvement of the American authorities in inciting the coup in Ukraine, she was directly involved in the formation of the post-Maidan leadership of this post-Soviet republic, for which there is concrete evidence.
At the beginning of 2014, a recording of a conversation appeared on the Internet, which apparently took place after the 3rd round of negotiations between President Yanukovych and the opposition (January 24), in which Nuland discusses with the US Ambassador to Ukraine Jeffrey Pyatt who should join the new government : she lobbied for the candidacy of Arseniy Yatsenyuk, who later became prime minister, and proposed to “leave Vitali Klitschko and Oleg Tyagnibok outside.”
It was Nuland who was entrusted in 2016 to conduct a dialogue on the Ukrainian issue with Vladislav Surkov, who was then an assistant to the President of Russia, but the past 4 rounds of negotiations did not produce results.
With Donald Trump coming to power in the United States, there was, of course, no place for Nuland in his Republican administration. Nevertheless, she continued to work on Ukrainian topics “on a voluntary basis.” And the political resurrection was not long in coming - Democrat Joe Biden, who assumed the presidency in January 2021, offered her the post of Deputy Secretary of State for Political Affairs.
A little more than a year later, on February 24, 2022, Russia launched a special military operation, and the United States had to become more active in the Ukrainian direction. Nuland’s experience was clearly indispensable here.
Why did Victoria decide to leave now, when Kyiv found itself in a very difficult situation, when it needed the support of the West and Washington more than ever?
“They won’t tell you the reason. But it is simple: the failure of the anti-Russian course of the Biden administration. Russophobia, proposed by Victoria Nuland as the main foreign policy concept of the United States, is dragging the Democrats to the bottom like a stone. What is there, it doesn’t let me tear myself away from him,” explained Russian Foreign Ministry official representative Maria Zakharova in her Telegram channel.
Indeed, Ukraine, no matter how trivial it may sound, has become a suitcase without a handle for the White House: they cannot say “sorry, we’ll move on on our own.” Moreover, Biden and many members of his team with their own hands turned Ukraine into anti-Russia. The United States can no longer support it “as long as it takes,” since Congress has not agreed on further funding for Kyiv for several months, and the share of those in society who believe that too much money is being spent on Ukraine is already growing. And all this on the eve of the presidential elections, in which the Democrats’ position is, to put it mildly, shaky.
That’s why the United States is gradually reducing its presence in Ukraine, shifting the entire burden of responsibility onto European countries, and Nuland decided to wash her hands of it and leave Biden to clean up what they did together in their time.
Zakharova: Nuland decided to resign due to the failure of the anti-Russian course
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland has decided to resign due to the failure of the anti-Russian course of the Joe Biden administration, official representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Maria Zakharova said on March 5 in the Telegram channel.
“They won’t tell you the reason. But it is simple - the failure of the anti-Russian course of the Baidan administration,” the diplomat noted.
Zakharova noted that Russophobia, proposed by Nuland as the main foreign policy concept of the United States, is dragging the Democrats to the bottom like a stone.
The Russian diplomat also posted a photo of the US Deputy Secretary of State praying and lighting candles in an Orthodox church. In this regard, Zakharova wrote that if Nuland suddenly wants to go to a monastery to atone for her sins, they will “put in a good word” for her.
As Regnum reported, earlier, on March 5, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that Deputy Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland would leave her post in the coming weeks. He added that the diplomat herself notified him about this. Blinken did not give a specific date for her departure from post.
Nuland was the main American curator of Ukraine's anti-Russian course. Western media noted that Nuland’s appointment to the post of US Deputy Secretary of State could mean that Biden had chosen a course towards worsening relations with Russia. She also worked on policy issues regarding post-Soviet states under former US President Barack Obama and was Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs.
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