The War of Joe Biden and the United States v Wladimir Putinon the skin ofUkraine andEuropeaccording to the newspaper has a first and last name: der von Victoria Nulanddubbed the “anti-Russian mastiff”.
The decision to appoint her as deputy secretary of state, No. 2 in the Stars and Stripes foreign policy chain of command, in April 2021 was deemed highly significant by geopolitical pundits. It was, explains Il Fatto, “a complete change of course, in a pejorative sense, in the actions of Washington and Moscow after Donald Trump’s openly pro-Putin presidency,” but also of the Obama administration.
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Nuland is a hawk: enemy of the former Soviet Union and determined to do whatever it takes to dismantle the Kremlin, even at the cost of sacrificing European allies. It had gone down in history, in 2014, during the very hot days of the uprising Maidan Squarein Kyiv that led to the overthrow of the president pro-Russian Yanukovychfor a harsh sentence referring to the US ambassador in Kyiv Geoffrey Pyatt, during a private phone call. The Ambassador explained to her the European Union countries’ doubts about what appeared to be a genuine coup d’état, backed by Washington. “F***k Europe‘ was Nuland’s reply. Translated: “Europe can fuck itself”. More or less, the skeptics of the “War! War!” Backed by Biden, the same stance the White House has taken these weeks. Eight years ago, Nuland celebrated Yacenyuk, then became Prime Minister from 2014 to 2016. He was partially lost, but now that Zelenskyy is increasingly linked by a direct line with Biden, the time for redemption seems to have come. But at what cost to us?