Biden Taps Architect of 2014 Ukraine Coup for State
Department
Victoria
Nuland, the wife of neoconservative Robert Kagan, is expected to be nominated for
undersecretary of state for political affairs
Dave
DeCamp Posted on January 5, 2021
https://news.antiwar.com/2021/01/05/biden-taps-architect-of-2014-ukraine-coup-for-state-department/
According to a report from Politico, Joe Biden’s
transition team is expected to nominate Victoria Nuland to be the under
secretary of state for political affairs for the incoming administration’s
State Department.
Nuland, who is married to neoconservative Robert
Kagan is known for her role in orchestrating the 2014 coup in Ukraine while
she was the assistant secretary of state for Europe and Eurasian affairs in the
Obama administration.
A recording of a phone
call between Nuland and then-US Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey
Pyatt was leaked and released on YouTube on February 4th, 2014. In the call,
Nuland and Pyatt discussed who should replace the government of former
Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, who was forced to step down on
February 22nd, 2014.
The US-backed coup sparked the war in eastern
Ukraine’s Donbas region and led to the Russian annexation of Crimea. Both
regions have a majority ethnic-Russian population who rejected the nationalist,
anti-Russian post-coup government that even had neo-Nazis in its midst.
In a 2020 column for Foreign Affairs titled,
“Pinning Down Putin,” Nuland said Russian President Vladimir Putin “seized” on
the 2014 coup and other “democratic struggles” to “fuel the perception at home
of Russian interests under siege by external enemies.” She also cited the war
in the Donbas and annexation of Crimea as examples of Russian aggression, as
most in Washington do.
Currently, Nuland is a fellow at the Brookings Institution and
works for the Albright Stonebridge Group. She is
also a board member of the National Endowment for Democracy, a
US-taxpayer funded nonprofit that funds “pro-democracy”
movements across the world.
Nuland worked in the Bush administration from 2005
to 2008 as the US ambassador to NATO. From 2011 to 2013, she served as the
spokesperson for Barack Obama’s State Department, and from 2013 to 2017, Nuland
was the assistant secretary of state for Europe and Eurasian affairs.
Politico also
reported that the Biden administration is tapping Wendy Sherman to work
directly under Secretary of State-designee Anthony Blinken. Sherman worked in
the Obama administration’s State Department and played a crucial role in negotiating the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
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