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Senior US diplomat says Niger coup leaders refused her to meet with president during visit (Victoria Nuland)
AP ^ | August 7, 2023 | SAM MEDNICK and ELLEN KNICKMEYER

Posted on 08/07/2023 3:31:04 PM PDT by McGruff

A senior U.S. official says coup leaders in Niger refused to allow her to meet Monday with the West African country’s democratically elected president, whom she described as under “virtual house arrest.”

Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland also described the mutinous officers as unreceptive to U.S. urging — and warnings — to return the country to civilian rule.

“They were quite firm about how they want to proceed and it is not in support of the constitution of Niger,” Nuland told reporters.

She spoke after a two-hour meeting on the ground in Niger’s capital, Niamey, with some leaders of the two-week military takeover in Niger, a vital counterterrorism partner of the United States.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: africa; niger; nuland
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If you don't know who she is:


1 posted on 08/07/2023 3:31:04 PM PDT by McGruff
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To: McGruff

Proving that the Nigerians are smart enough to stay far away from her. She has nothing to offer but misery and disaster.


2 posted on 08/07/2023 3:34:06 PM PDT by Obadiah
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To: McGruff
She blows stuff up and is a graduate of Dunning-Kruger school for the smart. Noland, Sullivan, Rice, Powers, Clinton, Blumenthal, were the Benghazi salesmen for weapons seized from Ghadaffi.

And blows up stuff like Nordstream.

3 posted on 08/07/2023 3:36:50 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
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To: McGruff

Assistant secretary of state— nothing but evil up her sleeve and under her bra.


4 posted on 08/07/2023 3:37:33 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: McGruff

Niger knows to stay far away from this poisonous witch.


5 posted on 08/07/2023 3:38:24 PM PDT by MarMema (Eat your bananas)
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To: McGruff

Smart coup leaders...

Although they are rank amateurs compared to the coup leaders who now are in total control of the U.S.


6 posted on 08/07/2023 3:39:12 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperately need him)
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To: McGruff

Senior US diplomat says Niger coup leaders refused her to meet with president during visit (Victoria Nuland)

Good for them I wouldn’t want to meet this warmonger either.


7 posted on 08/07/2023 3:39:56 PM PDT by Saintgermain
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Only Nulled is allowed to overthrow governments!


8 posted on 08/07/2023 3:44:03 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: McGruff

Doesn’t her presence there pretty much confirm Wagner Group involvement in the coup?


9 posted on 08/07/2023 3:52:00 PM PDT by montag813
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To: McGruff
LOL!

"Cookies" Nuland gets shown the door.

10 posted on 08/07/2023 3:55:29 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: McGruff
Nuland is the Typhoid Mary of American diplomacy.
11 posted on 08/07/2023 3:56:31 PM PDT by CaptainK ("If life's really hard, at least its short")
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To: McGruff

Dang and they had the chance


12 posted on 08/07/2023 4:02:20 PM PDT by struggle
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To: blackdog

The trouble in the Sahel region started with US meddling in Libya


13 posted on 08/07/2023 4:05:32 PM PDT by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness )
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To: McGruff

Keep that vampiress out.
As a matter of fact curse her, and threaten her with war crimes if she ever shows her face again !


14 posted on 08/07/2023 4:19:30 PM PDT by A strike ("The worse, the better."- Lenin (& Schwab & Soros)
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To: griswold3

By meddling you mean weapons trafficking and money laundering, right?


15 posted on 08/07/2023 4:19:47 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
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Someone should ask her about any bio-weapons labs there.
16 posted on 08/07/2023 4:20:00 PM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: McGruff

Good for Niger.


17 posted on 08/07/2023 4:20:24 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Fungi

Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland. She is number 3 in the State Department, but since July she is the acting Deputy Secretary of State, or Number 2 in State. Dangerous times ahead not only in Niger, but also, Ukraine.

Nuland is still smarting from being humiliated by Putin in 2014 in Ukraine after she engineered the coup that took out the duly elected President of Ukraine. How far will she go to salvage the losing situation in Ukraine? She must figure out a way to get NATO directly involved in the conflict. Another Gulf of Tonkin like incident? Nuland is obsessed with Putin. It is personal for her and dangerous for us.


18 posted on 08/07/2023 4:20:43 PM PDT by kabar
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To: McGruff

Ignorant, arrogant Deep State Uniparty troll who is trying to start WWIII. Married to neocon d-bag Robert Kagan.


19 posted on 08/07/2023 4:21:07 PM PDT by twister881
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To: McGruff

Too bad they didn’t just shoot the witch right then and there.


20 posted on 08/07/2023 4:36:06 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck (The Forever War is a crime against humanity)
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