Who is Victoria Nuland

Victoria Nuland is not interesting per se, but only as a representative of certain (close to vice president Cheney) forces in the USA foreign policy (aka neocons) which seems now fully control the State Department; forces which are so divorced from President Obama policies that are can talk about hijacking of the US foreign policy by a group of ideologies. One hallmark of those forces is close cooperation with far right (including openly neo-Nazi) elements in Europe and elsewhere. In this sense Victoria Nuland became a symbol of neocon forces within the State Department in Obama administration, providing amazing (but fully explainable within the concept of "deep state") continuity of foreign policy, policy that contradicts not only Barack "yes we can" Obama election promises but also his later statements. In a way it became symbol on complete inability of Obama to shape foreign policy during his presidency term, exposing him as a mere "placeholder" of POTUS position.

The majority is not even aware of the folly of our governments, especially now that the media are burying the Ukraine dossier headlines under the tritest domestic news, and censoring disapproving comments. A casual or less informed reader/viewer (the vast majority) most likely has no idea of how our politicians are playing with fire and supporting the new Nazis, or that the Ukraine story is more important than all the other news items.

As an Austrian I find this situation particularly infuriating. For all my five decades I've had to listen to reproaches that my people did not stand up to the Nazis' takeover of Austria, and now that Nazis are once again marching in Europe with swastikas and all, who is supporting them? The very countries that were acting oh-so-disdainful and morally superior (as well as our own clueless politicians), and the most supposedly "liberal" media.

Another thing - there has been so much fake crying of "wolf" in calling populist right parties Nazis (I vividly remember the "sanctions" on Austria in 2000), that now the real thing has apparently emerged, nobody is taking the danger seriously any more. And suddenly, it's Russia that has to be sanctioned, not the real-life fascists.

The hypocrisy of all this is breathtaking in its audacity and scope.

On the other hand, we now have a better idea how long and patiently the US/UK must have worked to get all the important media and politicians suborned, blackmailed or paid off - a huge number of ducks must have been put into a row for this moment, and they are probably furious that the propaganda is still not getting enough traction internationally.

I can just imagine the secret briefings to new US Presidents where they get handed a list of US "assets" including many of the "free" world's leading politicians, and told that all these are firmly "under our control". This would explain much of the hubris and arrogance we have all observed.

Victoria Nuland (born in 1961), a former the principal deputy foreign policy adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney, is a pretty interesting female chicken hawk among Washington's neocons in a sense that she continued the policy started with unforgettable Madeleine "not so bright" Albright who started disastrous interventionist line in US foreign policy by bringing the US into "humanitarian" bombing of Serbia. This line later was expanded by decimation Iraq (with approximately a million people killed and wounded), bombing of Libya and then supporting jihadists in Syria. In line with Madeleine tradition, Victoria Nuland policies essentially managed to bring the US in partitioning of Ukraine business.