Victoria Nuland will be resigning from her position as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs in the Biden administration, according to a March 5th statement from the State Department.
Nuland, who is currently the third-highest ranking diplomat in the United States government, will be succeeded by Under-Secretary of State for Management John Bass on an acting basis. The White House did not offer comment to Reuters about the reason behind her resignation.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken had positive words for “Toria” Nuland in his statement announcing her departure, saying she “personified President Biden’s commitment to put diplomacy back at the center of our foreign policy and revitalize America’s global leadership at a crucial time for our nation and the world.” Blinken added that Nuland’s “efforts have been indispensable to confronting Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine” and “marshaling a global coalition” to defeat Russia.
Former Trump White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon told Nuland to “preserve” her documents and “lawyer up.”
Bannon has a message for Victoria Nuland:
"Preserve your documents. Lawyer up because we are coming for you. You are the fountain head of everything about this Ukraine situation." pic.twitter.com/JsCuiHNqtV
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) March 5, 2024
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Notably, Blinken said Nuland’s service reflected her deep belief in “freedom, democracy, human rights, and America’s enduring capacity to inspire and promote those values around the world”—a hallmark of the foreign policy doctrine known as neoconservatism, otherwise known as interventionism. Neoconservatism was highly influential in the administration of George W. Bush and its War on Terror, which aimed to overthrow the government of Iraq and replace it with a democracy. Elements of neoconservatism still lingered in the Obama administration, with its aim to build momentum toward performing a similar operation in Syria, as well as its support for the so-called “Arab Spring” pro-democratic social media movement.
Nuland served in the Bush administration as Vice President Dick Cheney’s principal deputy foreign policy adviser and later as ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). She also served in the Obama administration, first as a spokesperson for the State Department and then as an assistant Secretary of State of European and Eurasian Affairs. During the Obama years, she led a pro-EU regime change effort in Ukraine which led to Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea.
A fierce critic of Donald Trump, she waited out his term until Biden took office, and then gladly resumed her career as an executive branch operative.
Prior to her days in the Bush administration, Nuland served in the US embassy in Russia in the 1990s and was present in Moscow for the failed coup against Russian President Boris Yeltsin.
Her husband, a neoconservative war advocate named Robert Kagan, recently wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post predicting that Trump will engage in dictatorial behavior should he win the 2024 election. The article photo depicted Trump’s face merging with that of Julius Caesar’s—the Roman general who became the dictator perpetuo of Rome and was subsequently assassinated by a group of senators…
In February 2016, Kagan publicly announced he was leaving the Republican Party and voting for Hillary Clinton, and blamed the GOP’s “wild obstructionism,” “repeated threats to shut down the government over policy and legislative disagreements, the persistent calls for nullification of Supreme Court decisions, the insistence that compromise was betrayal,” and “the internal coups against party leaders who refused to join the general demolition” that called the Trump movement into being.
Shane Devine is a writer covering politics, economics, and culture for Valuetainment. Follow Shane on X (Twitter).
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