Victoria Nuland, the State Department’s architect of the 2014 coup and the war in Ukraine, retired unexpected a few days ago. She and her husband, Robert Kagen, are known as an uber-neocons.
Before taking over the lead on Ukraine, Nuland was Dick Cheney’s foreign policy advisor during the 2003 Iraq War and aftermath. Glenn Greenwald noted the “singular monstrousness of Victoria Nuland and her bipartisan, blood-stained, ghoulish career…"
The circumstances of her sudden retirement have raised speculation that she was forced out to avoid escalation of a war with Russia:
“My best guess here is that the CIA and the Defense Department and the NSA got this message around saying, ‘look, Victoria’s got her own agenda here,’” said McGovern.
Nuland was recently passed over for a promotion to the number two spot at the State Department. Her departure may also be a recognition that opportunities in neocon think tanks or on the board of directors for military contractors could be more attractive.
Does Nuland’s history in both Democrat and Republican administrations show that US foreign policy is largely independent of election results?
Of course, the real question is who will get her broom now that events in Ukraine have thrown water on her career plans?
Doesn’t really raise any questions for me. People get passed over for promotions all the time. Sometimes they get miffed because of it.
Not sure what the great mystery here is. I’ve had employees I’ve had to pass over for promotion during my career because there was another candidate more suited for the job. I tried to do everything I could to find some alternative way to reward their hard work, but sometimes your best as a manager isn’t good enough. In those cases, I always tried to make sure we parted on the best terms possible and tried to make the transition as smooth as possible.
Yes, we need to blindly trust our masters who have promoted the Russia-collusion hoax, the unprovoked-invasion hoax, the Ukraine-is-winning hoax as the pretext for war with Russia.
