Commentary by Dr. Patrick Slattery — Germany’s leading news magazine Der Spiegel has published an article highly critical of U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland. While the article was written in German and an official translation has not yet been published, the Google computer translation below is more than adequate to grasp the gist of the story.
Nuland is furious that German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande traveled to Minsk to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, calling the talks “Moscow bullshit.” You will recall that a year ago while talking on an unsecured cellphone to U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt she was recorded saying “Fuck the EU” in response to their reluctance to replace democratically elected Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych with her hand-picked Jew crew.
The article also points out that she is pushing hard for heavy armaments to be shipped to Ukraine, and says that rather than working to solve the problem in Ukraine she has become the problem in Ukraine.
The article notes with some trepidation that should the Republicans win the next presidential election she would be a leading candidate for Secretary of State. Before one asks how a top official in the Obama administration could become Secretary of State under a Republican president, one must first answer how this former foreign policy adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney became in charge of Obama’s Russia policy. -ps
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Victoria Nuland: America’s riot-diplomat
Victoria Nuland: A clear opinion on what needs to be done in Ukraine
“Fuck the EU” – Victoria Nuland can be very direct.
Victoria Nuland is in Washington in front of a video screen azure of the Brookings Institution and want to say a few basic sentences with Ukraine crisis. “We have to help Ukraine to stop the blood loss,” she says. Even with deadly weapons? Nuland speaks of “defensive” measures and makes just before it stop, to press for the delivery of heavy weapons to the government in Kiev.
Nuland has a very direct way, you can focus on entertaining, but also be undiplomatic -. For a diplomat are the dangerous properties.
The 53-year-old is the European representative of the US government, it is the United States by the Ukraine crisis lead and the problems with Russian President Vladimir Putin solve.But in the crisis Nuland has itself become a problem.
Last Friday, the American delegation at their gave Munich Security Conference an internal briefing. She sat on the sixth floor of the Hotel Bayerischer Hof in the room were perhaps two dozen US diplomats and senators. Especially the German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen had spoken publicly of arms sales could act as an accelerant in eastern Ukraine. The Americans were angry.
Nuland said to have given the line: “We can fight the Europeans, rhetorical fight them,” she said, according to the newspaper “Bild”.
The journey of the Chancellor to Russian President Vladimir Putin called Nuland, the report says, “Merkel Moscow stuff.” The atmosphere heated up, one of the senators to about von der Leyen have blasphemed (“defeatism-Minister”), the term “bullshit Moscow “Europeans probably also fell.
The top diplomat Nuland is considered conservative. In the case of an election victory of the Republicans in the coming year it will be considered a potential new Foreign Minister. She is married to Robert Kagan, a conservative thinker. He published last year a text, why America must remain the undisputed leading power in the world.
In Ukraine crisis Nuland is considered hardliner and follower of arms sales – unlike their President Barack Obama has a clear opinion on what needs to be done.
Luck and mortgage for Obama
Nuland was on the US embassies in Moscow and Beijing, as a diplomat in NATO, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman in Washington. But no country fascinates as Russia.They love this country, she once said. Speaks Russian fluently Nuland. As the “most important reminder of her career” is the top diplomat day in August 1991, when it cooperated with 250,000 people in front of the Kremlin in Moscow confessed “and said no to the counter-revolution”. Victoria Nuland has therefore also made the fight against the forces of darkness in the former Russian Empire in the center of their career.
It is therefore a godsend and a mortgage at the same time for Obama. She made headlines after the Munich Security Conference last year. At that time she flew from Munich to Prague and Cyprus to Kiev, and on the way she called Geoffrey Pyatt, the American ambassador to Ukraine. Nuland renounced specific safety procedures and using her normal mobile phone. So the conversation was unencrypted.
On the evening of February 4, 2014 appeared on YouTube on a recording or four minutes and eleven seconds. The conversation between the two top diplomats gave a rare glimpse into the world of American diplomacy. At the end of the call Nuland said on a proposal by the US government, which was to outmaneuver the hesitant Europeans and she made famous . Shortly before she had spoken with the United Nations, the United Nations should engage in Ukraine and send a messenger to the EU would not have much to say. “That would be great, I think, to help things move, the UN would move things,” Nuland said and added: “. Fuck the EU”
“Absolutely unacceptable” were the words that the Chancellor was then align – an unusually sharp reaction. In the days that followed Nuland had to apologize. As a token of apology, she appeared in the next round with a homemade Buttons “. I love the EU”
Now, for the second time derogatory statements Nuland leaked that were not meant for the public. The Germans were irritated, finally, the American Merkel’s initiative to defuse crisis in Ukraine praised at the meeting with German ministers.
The day after the report in the newspaper “Bild” Nuland wanted nothing more to do with the statements then. Rather, she was a fan of diplomacy initiative of the German Chancellor. “In the public and internally all of us, myself included, whose diplomatic support,” she said of the US newspaper “Wall Street Journal”, “and we have worked side by side with them.”
