Victoria Nuland, the undersecretary of state for political affairs, said last week that the US is “supporting” Ukrainian attacks on Crimea and called Russian military installations on the peninsula “legitimate targets.”
Nuland made the comments when asked about a report from The New York Times that was published in January and said the Biden administration was “warming” to the idea of helping Ukraine attack Russia despite the risk of escalation.
“Russia has turned Crimea into a massive military installation … those are legitimate targets, Ukraine is hitting them, and we are supporting that,” Nuland told the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a Washington DC-based think tank.
Nuland also expressed support for the “demilitarization” of Crimea. “No matter what the Ukrainians decide about Crimea in terms of where they choose to fight, etcetera, Ukraine is not going to be safe unless Crimea is at a minimum — at a minimum — demilitarized,” she said.
Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova slammed Nuland’s comments, saying she was inciting an escalation of the war. “Now the American warmongers have gone even further: they are inciting the Kiev regime to further escalate, to bring the war to the territory of our country. Just like that, with direct strikes,” Zakharova said.
Nuland’s comments came a day after Secretary of State Antony Blinken acknowledged that a Ukrainian attempt at retaking Crimea would be a “red line” for Russian President Vladimir Putin and would risk a major response from Moscow. US support for such operations would increase the risk of provoking Moscow and heighten the chances of a direct clash between NATO and Russia.
Putin has shown that he will significantly escalate the war over attacks on Crimea. Russia did not start large-scale missile strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure until after the truck bombing of the Kerch Bridge, which connects Crimea to the Russian mainland.
While Ukraine hasn’t been in a position where it can launch an offensive against Crimea, the Biden administration has made clear throughout the conflict that it wouldn’t discourage Kyiv from attacking the peninsula.
Back in the summer of 2022, when the US first provided the HIMARS rocket systems to Ukraine, the administration sought assurances that the weapons wouldn’t be used to target Russian territory. When asked by Antiwar.com if that restriction applied to Crimea, a State Department spokesperson replied, “Crimea is Ukraine.”
Russia has controlled Crimea since 2014, but neither the US nor Kyiv recognize the peninsula as Russian territory. The people of Crimea voted to join Russia following a US-backed coup in Kyiv, which Nuland played an instrumental role in, and polling since 2014 has shown that they are still happy with the change.
The inmates are running the asylum.
Right, it is a megalomania; and these should have been locked in padded cells long ago.
“…locked in padded cells…?” I’m no expert in biblical studies. Padded cells are for humans. Hell fire is more appropriate for Satanic demons. (Sarcasm alert)
Someone please tell me why this mad woman is still in any position of power after starting this huge mess in 2014 with her coup.
Husband, Fredrick Kagan; brother in law, Robert Kagan; Father in law, Donald Kagan, the Sanhedrin of Neoconservatism/Zio-Nazism.
Pal, you gave the best answer to your own question. LOL.
Because, Netanyahu glued her to the state department.
Nuland needs to be disappeared .
May I mention, just in passing, of course!—the term “drawn and quartered”?
I have news for Russia if they hadn’t noticed. Ukraine has been attacking Crimea for almost a year with weapons and intelligence supplied by NATO.
When they had their backs to the Dnipro in Kherson, Russia gave Ukraine a tiny glimpse of what awaits them if Ukraine tries to cross that river themselves. It will likely be Zelensky’s Waterloo if he doesn’t wise up.
Since he hadn’t wised up by now, I would say the chances of him doing so are slim.
Not that he has a lot of choice. When you’re a marionette, you move with the strings that pull you.
right i’m sure they haven’t noticed yet
Well, I support any mugger, burglar, vandal, or psycho attacking Victoria Nuland.
May I volunteer? 😁
Nuland also expressed support for the “demilitarization” of Crimea. Copy cat.
but only if it is russia doing the demilitarization.
the very instant that russia moved out of crimea, uncle sam would set up shop there.
Victoria Nuland, the undersecretary of state for political affairs, said last week that the US is “supporting” Ukrainian attacks on Crimea and called Russian military installations on the peninsula “legitimate targets.”
“Nuland’s comments came a day after Secretary of State Antony Blinken acknowledged that a Ukrainian attempt at retaking Crimea would be a “red line” for Russian President Vladimir Putin and would risk a major response from Moscow.”
Not sure how things work but when I see “undersecretary of state” I assume the secretary of state would be her boss. Shouldn’t Tony fire that bitch?
Actually, someone should fire both Blinken and Nuland. And Sullivan and Ned Price and on and on.
Let’s throw the Cadaver in Chief in there too Johnny.
Don’t fire them, arrest them.
While not often mentioned, the fact that Russia is one of the holdouts to the grand schemes of the Globalists and not buying into the woke Leftist agenda being pushed in virtually all western countries is reason enough for the world rulers to spank Russia for not joining the club.
He asked if we were insane out here. I am a lefty, however, I do believe there is a bit of insanity here.
Victoria Nuland, the Israeli woman who started the Ukranian mess. Neocons never die.
Lord-a-mighty, the administration can’t even agree on what is a step too far. What a clusterf*ck the Regime is.
Sounds like Blinken and Nuland are playing at Good Cop / Bad Cop.
Bad Cop Nuland threatens to unleash the hounds against Crimea.
Good Cop Blinken mouths that “retaking Crimea would be a red line for Moscow, and gosh, we wouldn’t want to do that. So please, help me out so that Nuland character doesn’t get out of hand…”
Is she and Zelensky in charge of the US foreign policies? What happened to the Blinken punk?
Who is in charge of the mad house?
The lunatics.
The guys who own the Federal Reserve.
You hit the nail on the head.
Nuland is Blinken’s attack dog. And perhaps also his guide dog: I recall reading that Paul Wolfowitz was officially Under Secretary of Defense for Policy while Dick Cheney was Secretary of Defense for George H.W. Bush (1989-1993), but that Wolfowitz was the one directing the show. The story is that Wolfowitz was too inflammatory to be the public face for the Department of Defense, so Cheney was chosen for that (not that Cheney himself was ever warm and fuzzy).
So the current arrangement in the State Dept. may have some of that flavor. Besides which, Blinken and Nuland share similar career experience and neoconservative outlooks.
The clique is together going back to the Obama/Biden years the friendships with the Clintons included. The Kagans, father and sons go back to the PNAC YEARS, for them the time stood still, the same neocons are involved for decades to take nation over the cliff.
She only underlines how deranged and irrational the whole Biden team is. Biden, Blinken, Sullivan, Nuland and the other members of the Biden neocon gangsters are deranged and irrational and they are the real scary part. They are warmongers, ready to destroy the planet to get their way.
It is the Biden war, he started it and they were in it with him at least since 2014 the beginning of the war as people in the know now admit. Merkel, Holland and Jeffrey Sachs to name just three.
How could the NATO states end up with so many deranged, irrational leaders?
People like Biden break agreements and then want to blame Putin for putting a nuclear agreement on hold. Insane.
Victoria Nuland, the “undersecretary of state”. More like undercarriage of state.
That someone like Victoria Nuland is allowed to exercise the power and influence that she does is a very powerful demonstration that our so called democracy has totally broken down and is unable to function as a protector of peace and prosperity and the rights of individuals. The US government’s main focus is on prosperity for the so called 1%, and crumbs for everyone else. Forever war accomplishes that very well for them. And the welfare state provides the so called 1% a very effective diversion from the forever warfare state.
The only question in my mind is how and when the American Empire crashes and burns.Will it be Nuclear,Climate or the economy which bites the dust.I figure sometime in the next 10 to 20 years the bubble of Capitalism will fail . The next question is what will life be like in the US under Fascist rule.
In the movie “Powder”, a boy with special powers forces a man to experience the last moments of a deer the hunter has just shot through the heart.
When Victoria moves on to Hell, I don’t think she’ll burn. Instead, she will spend eternity reliving the last moments of each and every person whose death she has caused.
Thank you for sharing this, Duane. It was very, very moving, and I hope with all my heart that Nudelman’s eternity is exactly as you described. Hell, it WILL be, along with “It was worth it” bitch Not-at-Albright.
If only there were a Hell for her to enjoy. The sad part is that no justice will ever be visited upon her and her neoconservative confreres if we don’t.
“Victoria Nuland Says US Supports Ukrainian Attacks on Crimea Russia says her comments show the US is ‘inciting’ an escalation of the war”
Victoria Nuland is from a Ukrainian family and her husband Robert Kagan and brother Fredrick Kagan from a Lithuanian family. Anthony Blinken is from a Hungarian family who lived in Ukraine each one had a grandfather emigrate to America. Too bad their Grandfathers didn’t emigrate to Israel.
This is one evil cabal of NEOCONS running the US governments Eastern European and foreign operations. Joey Balloon Boy Biden can’t control them.
Which means Israel will continue to run free, gather money from you and I, continue attacks on Iran and Syria, continue the apartheid, hideous treatment of Palestinians.
It isn’t about US taxpayer funded Nuland, the entire US political class has done nothing to stop her for decades. By her (US) logic, she should demand that US be bombed for criminally seizing one third of Syria which it continues to occupy today. US takes the oil from the land and prevents starving Syrians from growing food on the land. Syria has never been part of the US, nor does its population speak English. If you approach the land today, US military will shoot you. Trump & Pompeo often threatened to punish any entity that tried to help Syria recover from 12 years of attacks by US taxpayer funded jihadists. Attacks to this day include incessant bombings by Israel. Syria would be entirely justified in bombing the US and seizing one third of its land. Why does no one ever stop the genocidal US?
Russia and China come to mind, Susan
This woman is seriously damaged goods. This is the PNAC cabal in action, true members of the hegemonic cult that believes the USA has a sacred obligation to rule the planet. She’s a cultist, no different really from Jim Jones and the gang who ran Jonestown. Only difference is that our end will be radioactive instead of chemical.
Well Bear, someone needs to offer her a Dixie cup of Kool-Aid .
When Russia took the Crimea Obama was our President and Biden was our Vice President.
Victoria Nuland knows far to much of what both ordered during the preceding Ukrainian Putsch to be kept outside the Biden government. I bet that some of these orders are contained in the classified documents found in Biden’s illegal possession and concealment.
Her Ukrainian Putsch had a very bad consequence for her. Putin took the Crimea. Now Nuland proposes to use Ukrainian bodies to repair her blunder. And why should Blinken suddenly speak the truth?
The US had better get its act together and it can start by taking some geography lessons.
This is THE SAME Victoria Nuland who was recorded BRAGGING over the telephone about the ‘cheap price’ she paid for the Ukraine ‘student protestors’ and the mercenaries to shoot at Ukraine capital police then enter the capital building to murder the entire freely elected Ukraine government to replace them with homosexual stripper Zelensky, in evidence as a Soros clan member. In 2014 the Biden/Obama cult was after the $7.2 billion IMF loan being held by Ukraine. Ukraine tax payers are still on the hook for this $7.2 billion be cause the Commonwealth Press Union and the Council on Foreign Relations newspapers refer to this paid mercenary attack and seating of Zelensky as a ”domestic concern”.
In 2014, Zelenskyy was just an actor who happened to speak out against banning Russian artists. It’s highly unlikely that Nuland had ever heard of, let alone taken any special notice of, him.
There is much we don’t know yet about Maidan, but as irrational as they they are anything is possible. I read many participants were paid, $500 to be in the first row, $300 in second and $100 behind that.
Is it true? Who knows, but it is possible and even likely to be true.
True. Nuland works for an organization. The coup was NOT directed by puppet Zelensky, who has made sure to let everybody know he could not coordinate a street corner KoolAde stand. Nuland and husband Mr. TV Neocon are NWO from way back. In 2014, there had been a recent $7.2 + billion IMF grant/loan, and the Biden/Clinton/Nuland gang wanted it, and by staging the ‘revolution’ they left Ukraine tax payers on the hook for repayment. The British wanted control of Ukraines agricultural resource. Russia had yet to enter the picture. The Ukraine government that was murdered during this 2014 attack(messy) had been freely elected in a process consistent with a Constitution similar to the U.S.. Zelensky may well be a Soros clone or grandson. Examine the overlays of George Soros’ and Zelensky’s faces. Same blood line and maybe even clones. Cloning has been going on for over 50 years with sheep and possibly people. Insert the chosen gene set, and voila. Nuland was in on the planning, and the U.S. military knows it. We shall see what happens next when it does. Always nail shop lifters out in the parking lot to see if they drive a Ferrari.
Do your homework, Knapp.
The criminality of the American governing elite is hard to believe.
Morally and intellectually bankrupt people.