Posted on 06/02/2023 5:06:05 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
From Wikipedia:
During the Maidan Uprising in Ukraine, Nuland made appearances supporting the Maidan protesters. In December 2013, she said in a speech to the US–Ukraine Foundation that the U.S. had spent about $5 billion on democracy-building programs in Ukraine since 1991.
Nuland was the lead U.S. point person for Ukraine’s Revolution of Dignity, establishing loan guarantees to Ukraine, including a $1 billion loan guarantee in 2014, and the provisions of non-lethal assistance to the Ukrainian military and border guard. Along with Secretary of State John Kerry and Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, she is seen as a leading supporter of defensive weapons delivery to Ukraine. In 2016, Nuland urged Ukraine to start prosecuting corrupt officials: “It’s time to start locking up people who have ripped off the Ukrainian population for too long and it is time to eradicate the cancer of corruption”.
During a June 7, 2016, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing titled “Russian Violations of Borders, Treaties, and Human Rights”, Nuland described U.S. diplomatic outreach to the former Soviet Union and efforts to build a constructive relationship with Russia. During her testimony, Nuland noted de facto 2014 Russian intervention of Ukraine which she said, “shattered any remaining illusions about this Kremlin’s willingness to abide by international law or live by the rules of the institutions that Russia joined at the end of the Cold War.”
Nuland left the State Department in January 2017, amid the departure of many career officials who left in the early days of the Trump administration.
On January 24, 2018, The Washington Post published an interview with Nuland where she opined on the work of President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. She described an exodus of career foreign service officials and dysfunction within the State Department, and stated that the American judiciary and media were under assault.
She encouraged whole-government responses to international issues, stating, “Military leaders would be the first to say military solutions alone result in more and longer military entanglements.
In July 2021 Nuland met with Belarussian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya in Washington.
In March 2022, Nuland expressed concern that Russia would get control of Ukraine’s biological research facilities during its invasion of Ukraine.
At a United States Congressional hearing in early 2023, Nuland stated regarding the 2022 Nord Stream pipeline sabotage, “I am, and I think the administration is, very gratified to know that Nord Stream 2 is now... a hunk of metal at the bottom of the sea.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Nuland
LOL, russians "threatened" by the West.
Meanwhile in Russia: during Vladimir Solovyov's show, Professor Dmitry Evstafiev argued that the West wants to divide Russia by promising to supply its regions with Nutella, paved roads and indoor toilets.
https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1664317879527915529
Berlin 1945
Aerial view of bombed out buildings in the Schoneberg section of Berlin following Allied capture of the city.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/418060777915059933/
Luftangriffe auf Dresden im Februar 1945 - Bild 6 von 9
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/94012710963115004/
Let’s hope they don’t bring back the Warsaw Pact and some countries in the Western hemisphere join and train their missiles (that maybe Russia will supply) on Washington.
Right, and exactly what will the "Russian bear" do worse to Ukraine?
Drone footage shows scale of devastation in Mariupol-2022
Drone shows devastated Bakhmut-2023
Yes Ukraine belongs in a Den of Thieves who Bomb Civilian Women and Children with Cluster Munitions at the direction of Albanian Muslim Terrorists, and run Human Trafficking and Prostitution Operations from the Nations where they committed their Ethnic Cleansing and Human Rights Crimes.
It's the People of America, the Constitution and the US Military that do not belong in the Globalist Criminal Organization NATO.
Hamburg, Germany, 1943, from the BBC:
“The big bombs blocked roads, shattered water mains and, crucially, blew out windows and roofs.
“Then thousands of incendiaries could start fires to cause intensive destruction.”
....
Kate Hoffmeister, 19, was trying to escape the furnace her Hamburg neighbourhood had become.
“I struggled to run against the wind in the middle of the street... we couldn’t go on across [the road] because the asphalt had melted.
“There were people on the roadway, some already dead, some still lying alive but stuck in the asphalt. They must have rushed on to the roadway without thinking.
“Their feet have got stuck and they had put out their hands to try and get out again. They were on their hands and knees screaming.”
....
“At this moment something snapped in a neighbour and, caught up in a panic, he took his bed cover and wanted out.
“None of us could stop him. We saw him still, but only as a living torch carried by the firestorm, ‘flying through the air’.”
....
She said: “We came out... into a thundering, blazing hell. The streets were burning, the trees were burning and the tops of them were bent [by the wind] right down to the street.
“Burning horses out of the Hertz hauling business ran past us. The air was burning; simply everything was burning.”
....
aircrews reported being able to feel the heat, getting soot over their aircraft and even the smell of roasting flesh.
....
upwards of half of all homes in the city were destroyed.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-43546839
Already tried and failed.
LOL, right like ANY of those former countries want to join with Russia.
Russians in Ukraine, been there, done that.
Bakhmut bombed by Russian forces with incendiary substance
“exactly what will the ‘Russian bear’ do worse to Ukraine?”
Russia has an military-industrial complex capability comparable to that of the United States.
Putin isn’t imposing any 1% or 5% spending limit on his war machine.
I don’t see Ukraine joining NATO anytime soon.
It may very well become a partner, but to be a NATO member it needs more structural and democratic reform.
AND, it needs to not have any open land disputes.
“rightfully place in riding an elephant”
The Latin script is getting too difficult for you? Prefer Cyrillic?
Funny how the Neocon supporters claim (correctly) that Russia cannot reconstitute the Warsaw Pact, which was the threat we were up against during the Cold War.
Without something like the Warsaw Pact, it seems to me that Russia’s threat to Europe is quite limited.
So they’re basically agreeing with us that Europe was never at risk by the Neocon actions in Ukraine...which, of course, leads to the question (since answered) as to why a war in Ukraine was so important to them.
According to Ivanpresto anyone who does not want to be under the Kremlin’s control is a Nazi
I’m more worried long-term about Turkey, who has millions of Fifth-Column Muslim supporters spread all throughout Europe. And when Russia is out of the picture, they’ll make their move.
“Europe started WW1 and WW2. “
“Europe” didn’t start either. Europe is a geographical differentiation.
WW1 was started by Austria-Hungary.
WW2 was started by Nazi Germany in alliance with Soviet Russia
Ukraine is being armed NOT by just the US, but by the West.
Even russians on State TV acknowledge the fact that russia is outmatched by the West
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