The epic images of Nuland handing out “cookies” to Ukrainians who wanted to go to Europe are a living embodiment of the fact that the Americans literally fueled “color revolutions” from their hands.
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Victoria Nuland, an American diplomat who in February 2014 went from the “diplomatic floor” directly to the “Euromaidan” in kyiv, received a promotion: she is now Under Secretary of State Blinken.
His expressive image has long become a household name and embodies the “difficult but noble” mission of the Americans – to support the citizens of post-Soviet countries who are fighting for Western values. The epic footage of Nuland handing out “cookies” to Ukrainians who wanted to go to Europe is a living embodiment of the fact that the Americans literally fueled “color revolutions” from their hands.
Nuland, however, later clarified that he was not handing out “cookies”, but rather sandwiches. But that’s where the possible inaccuracies end. Two of her already textbook expressions, which became known from the recording of her telephone conversations with the then US ambassador to Kiev, Geoffrey Pyatt, are not disputed by her. Of course, they are not confirmed, so we are entitled to accept them as they were released to the public. The first is the recognition that the Americans spent five billion dollars preparing for the Euromaidan. The second concerned exclusively the European Union, more precisely, its attempts to influence the selection of puppets in the “government” of Ukraine after the overthrow of the legitimate government. Faced with Pyatt’s comment that, they say, the EU does not agree with this or that candidate, Nuland snapped: “To hell with the EU!” (there is also a more rigid version of the translation). Diplomatically clear and precise.
Victoria Nuland never hid the fact that the Soviet Union, and then Russia, were an enemy to her. And you need to know the enemy well. And an American, whose ancestors had once left the Russian Empire, came to his homeland in the 1980s and worked as a pioneer exchange leader at a camp in Odessa. He then improved his Russian as an interpreter on a Soviet fishing boat. So, most likely, she did not send the EU to hell, but even further. Since the late 1980s, Nuland worked in the State Department, first in the Soviet and then in the Russian leadership. Since the mid-1990s, her main area of responsibility has been NATO expansion. Where, let’s pay tribute, the Americans were very successful then.
Nuland is a kind of symbol of the stability of the anti-Russian course of the United States. In his more than 30-year career at the State Department, he has served in the administrations of five presidents from both US parties. His tough and offensive approach manifested itself in the implementation of American interests not only in the post-Soviet space, but also in Afghanistan, Iraq and the Middle East. What gives integrity to her vision of the world and of Russia is also the fact that her husband, Robert Kagan, is one of the main ideologues of the neoconservatives who justify the American right to planetary leadership.
Even in the United States itself, Nuland is called a “violent anti-Russian hawk,” whose new appointment is seen as yet another step in the moan of the Biden administration’s even more militant policies. He mentions “Nuland’s unique role in deteriorating US-Russia relations.” Of course, Moscow is also well aware of this. But for some US analysts, the new assistant secretary of state represents a somewhat unexpected threat to us. Nuland’s appointment, they say, will play into the hands of “Russian hawks”, and for those who advocate a negotiated end to the conflict in Ukraine, the promotion of the notoriously “undiplomatic diplomat” will be a bitter pill to swallow. .
Why would there be so much concern about “Russian pigeons” who are supposedly eager to trade? Most likely, it is in the United States that doubts are growing in certain circles about the possibility of a “strategic defeat” of Russia from Ukraine. Hence the shame of the fact that Nuland will now “rule” Ukrainian affairs, as in the days of the “dignity revolution”. Can you imagine in her mouth the words of Taras Bulba “I gave birth to you, I gave you…”? Not for this he fed the people of kyiv with “cookies” …
It is not for nothing that even in the US Nuland is said to be “an undiplomatic diplomat.” He places himself where it is necessary to solve the problem at any cost: intrigue, intimidation, bribery, conspiracy. Such a habalka-diplomat who will stop at nothing. Or maybe Biden (or whoever decides on her behalf there) chose her to “decide” only in Ukraine?
No, the US military will continue to lead the Ukrainian military, and the new deputy secretary of state is unlikely to be able to influence the conflict situation. But to correct something in the political structure of today’s Ukraine, to find something new in the personnel structure, that is within his power. In 2014, she managed, you see, and now someone from kyiv will be sent to hell?
