Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced Tuesday that Russia hardliner Victoria Nuland will resign from her post as assistant secretary of state for political affairs, the number three post at the State Department.
Her retirement comes just two years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and after she lost her position as deputy secretary of state to another diplomat, Kurt Campbell. She served in that capacity as her deputy for seven months.
Mr. Blinken said: statement:
Victoria Nuland has informed me that she intends to resign as Under-Secretary of State for Political Affairs in the coming weeks. She has been instrumental in bringing diplomacy back to the center of foreign policy and embodying President Biden’s promise to revitalize America’s world. To provide leadership at a critical time for our country and the world.
He specifically mentioned her work on Ukraine.
Her efforts organized a global coalition to confront Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, ensure Putin’s strategic failure, and ensure that Ukraine was firmly on its own democratically, economically, and financially. It’s essential in helping you work toward the day you can. militarily.
Blinken, along with himself and President Joe Biden, asked John Bass, who served as U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan during Biden’s failed and deadly withdrawal, to fill Nuland’s role until a replacement is confirmed. He said he requested it.
by new york times, some analysts interpreted Mr. Campbell’s promotion over Mr. Nuland is a sign that Mr. Biden and Mr. Blinken consider the U.S.-China relationship a higher priority than Ukraine.
Nuland was accused by the Russian government of supporting the pro-Western and anti-Russian movement of Ukraine. Her hawkish views on Russia also drew criticism from those skeptical of U.S. intervention abroad.
Daniel Larison is a columnist for Responsible Statecraft, a contributing editor for Antiwar.com, and a former senior editor for Antiwar. american conservative wrote in a magazine, piece:
Nuland was a pugnacious liberal hawk during his administration and was consistently one of the most vocal supporters of increased U.S. support for Ukraine and NATO. Her career at times exemplified the careless and arrogant foreign policy worldview she championed.
She served as then-Vice President Dick Cheney’s national security chief of staff during the first two years of the Iraq war, and then served as U.S. NATO ambassador in Brussels during the Bush administration’s second term. Nuland was an early cheerleader for Ukraine’s entry into the alliance.Reportedly, she advised The Ukrainian government at the time launched an information campaign to “dispel the image of NATO as a ‘four-letter word.'”
As the U.S. representative to NATO at the 2008 Bucharest Summit, he pressured allies to grant Accession Action Plans (MAPs) to Ukraine and Georgia. She was involved in a debacle in which the alliance promised to someday admit Ukraine and Georgia into NATO when the German and French governments balked at the idea. The Bucharest commitments contributed to the outbreak of war in August between Russia and Georgia later that year, and laid the foundation for subsequent tensions between Russia and Ukraine.
Nuland served as assistant secretary of state for European affairs during the Obama administration and was involved in intervening in Ukraine during the Maidan protests.she was featured in the news photograph During a demonstration in Kiev handing out sandwiches to demonstrators He later helped overthrow the elected Yanukovych government.
In February 2023, Tesla and X CEO Elon Musk posted on X about the Ukraine war: “No one is pushing this war more than Nuland.”
No one is promoting this war more than Nuland.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 22, 2023
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Tuesday that Nuland’s resignation was due to the Biden administration’s “failure” in its Russia policy.
“They won’t tell me why,” Zakharova said, according to the Associated Press. “But it’s simple: the Biden administration’s anti-Russia policy has failed. Russophobia, as proposed by Victoria Nuland as America’s primary foreign policy concept, is dragging the Democratic Party like a rock to the bottom.”
Furthermore, Russian state news agency TASS emphasized that: article Pro-Russian news outlets reported that Nuland’s retirement signaled that the U.S. government’s Ukraine policy had reached an “impasse.” The article touched on the aftermath of the protests that led to the resignation of pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych and said Nuland had played a “key role” in building Ukraine’s “post-Maidan” power. . She also accused her of not implementing the Minsk agreements.
The article also notes that Nuland, in his current role, has failed to prevent the launch of a “Russian special military operation” in Ukraine and has since “despite numerous loud statements, effectively failed to provide adequate support to Ukraine.” “We were unable to secure that level of support.” This led to the failure of last year’s counterattack and the current difficult situation. [for Ukraine] battlefield situation. ”
“All of this, combined with the sharp escalation of internal political struggles within the United States, gave Western countries a sense of America’s impasse.” [Washington’s] Ukrainian Strategy, Nuland is one of its main designers. And in this respect, her retirement seems quite natural. “This process requires a new designer, or rather a new design,” she said in the article.
Nuland is a career diplomat who was appointed assistant secretary of state for European affairs during the Obama administration. She retired after Donald Trump was elected president, and she returned under Biden.
She worked at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow in the 1990s and was there during the coup attempt against then-Russian President Boris Yeltsin. She then served as the US ambassador to NATO, and then she served as State Department spokesperson during then-President Barack Obama’s first term.
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