During the Obama administration, Gordon served as the assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian Affairs during the tenure of secretary of state Hillary Clinton, in which capacity Gordon oversaw the administration’s checkered but ultimately failed “reset” policy with Russia.
Gordon’s departure from that office to assume the role of Middle East policy coordinator at the White House came to be a source of regret for those who placed their hopes in a more productive, less contentious US-Russia relationship.
Gordon’s successor as assistant secretary, Victoria Nuland, the neoconservative former national security adviser to Dick Cheney, has turned out to be the worst possible choice at the worst possible time.
Gordon, unlike the cookie-wielding, regime change enthusiast Nuland, didn’t seek to make waves. One high-ranking former colleague of Gordon’s from the Clinton and Obama administrations praised him with faint praise, telling this reporter “He’s competent and good-natured. Beyond this, nothing remarkable comes to mind.”
If it was a different administration, I would agree with you. But I think whoever is behind this regime (administration) is handling both the President and Vice President. Nothing will change.