U.S. Senate approves Nuland as Under Secretary of State / Photo from UNIAN
Antiwar.com: As Ukraine Simmers, Victoria Nuland Is Now Highest-Ranking Member of US Foreign Service
On April 29 the U.S. Senate confirmed Victoria Nuland as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, which has been described as the fourth most important position in the State Department. Though as the first three are filled by political appointees and the other by a career foreign service officer, the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs is the highest-ranking member of the U.S. Foreign Service.
In an appearance before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in April as part of her confirmation process, she reflected on her thirty-two years in the Foreign Service working for five presidents of both parties and nine secretaries of state. She retailed some of her “historic moments” in that career, among them “working on tough arms control problems and conflicts from Rwanda to Haiti to Bosnia and Kosovo.”
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WNU Editor: Long time readers of this blog know that I view her as a monster. Her bragging in 2014 that Washington spent $5 billion to subvert Ukraine still makes my blood boil (see video below).
This is a vile human who should be allowed nowhere near government power. Is she as vile as Alexander Vineland? While both are vile beyond measure, the matter of degree will be likely decided by future historians.
ReplyDeleteAs far as I'm concerned, Trump or someone like him cannot return to power soon enough. As the powers that be continue fouling things up, I would expect such sentiment to grow.
Trying to pick up the pieces of the fiasco that was Obamas foreign policy. There was an article in Mother Jones this week questing why we are funding the Egyptians while they are being ruled by the military...trying to prop up the Obama/ Muslim Brotherhood fiasco...Libya, Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Yemen...it was just never ending.
ReplyDeleteThe Muslim Brotherhood/Obama and the military are on opposite sides. Obama had an embargo against the Egyptian military.
ReplyDeleteAre human rights abuses worse or better under the military than under the Muslim Brotherhood?
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