Musk: Nobody Pushing Ukraine War Like State Department's Nuland
Neocons Victoria "Fuck the EU" Nuland and her husband have failed their way up in Washington
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Elon Musk, the Tesla billionaire, took to Twitter on Wednesday to accurately state that there is nobody pushing the Ukraine War more than Victoria “Fuck the EU” Nuland, the under secretary of state for political affairs at the U.S. State Department.
Musk was responding to a post from Professor Jordan Peterson who linked out to a Newsweek article titled: “Russian State TV Says U.S. Has Declared War After Crimea Comments.”
Nuland, who was a major player in the U.S.-led coup in Ukraine back in 2014, continued down her path of destruction last week when she called Crimea a legitimate target for Ukrainian forces.
TRENDPOST: Indeed, this video clearly shows her role in the U.S.-orchestrated coup of the democratically elected president of Ukraine, Victor Yanukovych. Imagine if the Russians were at a protest in America handing out bread!
Nuland told the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace that the U.S. supported Ukrainian strikes on these targets because Washington believes Kyiv is “owed and due all of their territory within their international borders,” which she said included Crimea.
“Ukraine is not going to be safe unless Crimea is—at a minimum, at a minimum—demilitarized,” she said.
The Russian Embassy in Washington used Nuland’s comments as evidence that the U.S. is “directly involved in the conflict,” RT, the Russian news outlet, reported. The embassy said Nuland’s comments show that Washington is taking “concrete actions” in the war.
The Newsweek article noted a video uploaded to Twitter by the account TheKremlinYap that showed Russian journalist Igor Korotchenko claiming that the U.S. had crossed a red line by supporting the strikes on Crimea.
“After the U.S. crossed every imaginable and unimaginable red line, today the U.S. State Department actually announced that it was going to war with Russia,” the journalist said. “I assume that this is how we should interpret Nuland's statement. There is no need for halftones. The U.S. is an enemy of Russia, a military adversary.”
Korotchenko said he wanted Russian officials to give “adequate, conceptual, doctrinal, and military responses to this audacious statement of the United States.” He warned: What kind of measures? We shall see.”
Dmitry Medvedev, the former Russian president, also took issue with President Biden’s bellicose speech in Poland a few days ago, where he said Russia will “never” emerge victorious in Ukraine.
“It is obvious to all reasonable forces that if the United States wants the defeat of Russia, then we are on the verge of a world conflict,” he said. “If the United States wants to defeat Russia, then we have the right to defend ourselves with any weapon, including nuclear.”
Musk has been called a “geopolitical chaos agent” by The New York Times because he laid out a peace plan for Ukraine.
He said the referendums in the newly annexed regions could be done over, with UN supervision. Russia would leave if it is the will of the people. He noted that Crimea would be formally recognized as part of Russia, “as it has been since 1783 (until Khushchev’s mistake).”
Musk echoed what The Trends Journal has been saying since the beginning of the war: that Ukraine will likely end up with the same outcome, it is just a matter of how many people have to die before an agreement is reached.
Musk has been praised by Ukrainians for providing Starlink satellites for its military to provide internet. Russia has threatened to shoot Musk’s SpaceX satellites. Alas, no good deed goes unpunished and—even though these satellites have cost his company $80 million to run—he was criticized when he mentioned that someone else may have to start picking up the tab.
Musk seemed to take offense by Ukraine’s ambassador to Germany, Andrij Melnyk, who told him to “Fuck off,” after he called for peace. Musk said he was just following Melnyk’s recommendation.
Salon ran a profile on Nuland last year that expressed dismay over her appointment to such an important position in the State Department. The article was titled “WHO IS VICTORIA NULAND? A REALLY BAD IDEA AS A KEY PLAYER IN BIDEN’S FOREIGN POLICY TEAM.”
The magazine said Nuland is “stuck in the quicksand of 1950s U.S.-Russia Cold War politics and dreams of continued NATO expansion, an arms race on steroids, and further encirclement of Russia.”
New Europe published an article that said it is the shared Washington worldview that Nuland and her neocon husband, Robert Kagan, maintain that led to the current tension in Ukraine. James W. Carden, a former adviser to the State Department, pointed to Harvard University’s Stephen Walt who once said, “Being a Neocon Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry.”
Carden pointed to how Kagan and Nuland’s careers have blossomed despite obvious criticisms. Nuland was accused of becoming more of an activist for Ukraine’s pro-democracy movement about a decade ago.
“Part of the reason the U.S. is at grave risk of a war with Russia—and there is precious little debate about the policies that have brought us to this point—is that foreign policy in Washington is conducted by a virtually closed circle. And that circle is dominated by people like the Kagans,” he wrote.
He said Washington’s “legacy media” companies perpetuate these policies and essentially function as “the permanent bureaucracy’s echo chamber.”
Nuland addressed the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation Conference in Washington, D.C. back in December 2013 and talked about the “historic” challenges that Ukraine faced when it seemed to be slowing its embrace of Europe.
She was fixated on Ukraine’s turn toward Europe instead of Moscow and praised a protest that was growing against Yanukovych’s decision to “pause on the route to Europe.”
“Since Ukraine’s independence in 1991, the United States has supported Ukrainians as they build democratic skills and institutions, as they promote civic participation and good governance, all of which are preconditions for Ukraine to achieve its European aspirations. We’ve invested over $5 billion to assist Ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic Ukraine,” she said, while standing at a rostrum in front of Chevron and Exxon Mobil signs.
After being conviced of treason, how many neoCON warmongers would be hanging?
Good stuff