Under Secretary of State of Political Affairs Victoria Nuland, the number three person in the State Department hierarchy and supervillain of the anti-American left and pro-Russian right, announced her retirement Tuesday after a tumultuous career serving six presidents,
Nuland had expected to be named as the successor to Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, who retired in July and in which position she had been serving in an “acting” capacity, but Secretary of State Antony Blinken decided to appoint Biden’s National Security Coordinator for the Indo-Pacific Kurt Campbell.
If Nuland didn’t exist, the supporters of Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the current invasion of Ukraine would have been forced to create her.
In their mythology, it was Nuland, acting as principal deputy foreign policy adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney, who was key to getting the Bush administration to…
