The State Department announced on Tuesday that Victoria Nuland, the third highest-ranking U.S. diplomat, would step down. Her career in U.S. diplomacy is a case study in Beltway bureaucrats failing upward over their decades in Washington.
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Independent Substack journalist Jordan Schachtel outlined "The Real Victoria Nuland" following the announcement of her resignation.
"From 2013 to 2015 Nuland's portfolio was dominated by Eastern Europe and Russia," Schachtel wrote. "She was the American point person for the infamous 'Maidan uprising' in Ukraine, which resulted in the ouster of the country's elected president. Critics of the Nuland-led campaign have labeled her activities in Ukraine as a successful coup effort in a foreign country."
Under President Biden, "Nuland appeared to telegraph the future bombing of the Nord Stream pipeline, declaring that it will 'not move forward' if Russia invades Ukraine," Schachtel added.
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"Nuland has since acted to disrupt peace talks and advance the maximalist position of fighting the Ukraine-Russia war to the very last Ukrainian, ensuring that there is more reasons for Congress to allocate untold billions to the war effort," Schachtel reported.
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If fomenting World War III is a metric of success (and in Washington, it is), then Nuland will be on her way to a high-paid professorship at an American university, if not a fellowship at a Beltway think tank.
Trust the experts. All of their failures and betrayals have the right credentials.