Middle East Eye: Victoria Nuland: Farewell to the queen of US foreign policy disasters Marco Carnelos
"For 30 years, from Iraq, Syria and China to Ukraine, Russia and Israel, Nuland's impact on US foreign policy has been disastrous. Let's hope her successor is an improvement...
"It is a rare thing, even in the glorious annals of US diplomacy, to have had an official combine Russophobia, Sinophobia and Islamophobia to produce so much damage....
"Nuland's most important accomplishment, for which she deserves an imaginary academy award for foreign policy blunders, was her handling of the Ukrainian file..."
"There, she organised the "Maidan coup", according to the Russian narrative, where she brilliantly succeeded in bringing Ukraine under the western political umbrella and ousting Ukraine's legitimately elected president, Viktor Yanukovych. This overturned a previously agreed political deal brokered by European powers to avoid Ukraine descending into chaos. Famously, in a leaked call to the US ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, she said "**** the EU" at the time."
"There was a four-year pause in Nuland's career between January 2017 and January 2021, during which she did not deploy any ticking bombs. The reason is simple: she was not welcome in the new Trump administration."
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/victoria-nuland-us-foreign-policy-queen-blunder-farewellNuland lands at Columbia.
"will join SIPA as the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor in the
Practice of International Diplomacy effective July 1."