Victoria Nuland

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Victoria Nuland (2013)
Donald Rumsfeld and Victoria Nuland during the NATO-Ukraine consultations in Vilnius , 2005

Victoria Jane Nuland (* 1961 in New York City ) is an American diplomat . She was Assistant Secretary of State for the US State Department from September 2013 to January 2017 and as such was responsible for Europe and Eurasia .

Life

Nuland was born in 1961 as the eldest of four children of the surgeon , professor of bioethics , medical history and non-fiction author Sherwin B. Nuland . Her Orthodox Jewish grandparents (Meyer and Vitsche Nudelman - the name was officially changed to 'Nuland' by Sherwin B. Nuland in 1947) immigrated to the USA from Bessarabia , which at the time was still part of Russia , at the beginning of the 20th century . She attended Choate Rosemary Hall Boarding School until 1979, after which she earned a bachelor's degree from Brown University . Nuland speaks Russian , French and a little Chinese .

Nuland is married to the historian Robert Kagan , who with his institute Project for the New American Century was considered a pioneer of neoconservative foreign policy under President George W. Bush . The couple have two children.

Career

Since 1984, Nuland served in the United States Department of State. As a diplomat she was stationed in Mongolia, China and Russia, among others. She later proved to be politically flexible: under the Democratic President Bill Clinton , she was Chief of Staff of Deputy Foreign Secretary Strobe Talbott from 1993 to 1996 , and from 2003 to 2005 she worked as security policy advisor to the Republican Vice President Dick Cheney at the height of the Iraq war .

Of 20 June 2005 to 2 May 2008 was it representative of the US in NATO ( United States Permanent Representative to NATO ). From 2008 to 2009 she was a professor at the National Defense University . From May 31, 2011 to February 11, 2013, she was spokeswoman for the US State Department and from September 18, 2013 to January 25, 2017, she was the Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasia .

Controversy over bugged Nuland's phone call

Victoria Nuland and Ambassador Geoffrey R. Pyatt welcome Petro Poroshenko in Warsaw on June 4, 2014

On February 4, 2014, a bugged telephone conversation between Nuland and the US Ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey R. Pyatt , was published on the YouTube video platform under the title The Maidan's Puppets (Марионетки Майдана). The two diplomats discuss the current crisis in Ukraine . Among other things, it will be discussed which politicians of the opposition should belong to the next government in Kiev - and how this can best be steered in the interests of US interests through concrete influence.

Nuland expresses her unwillingness that the EU-friendly "Klitsch" ( Vitali Klitschko ) should join the Ukrainian government. She favored “Jats” ( Arseni Yazenjuk ), whom she even trusts to be prime minister. For his part, Pyatt explains to Nuland that he is glad that she pushed Yatsenyuk to answer where it best fits the scenario. ("And I'm glad you sort of put him on the spot on where he fits in this scenario." - the expression to put someone on the spot means something like "put someone under pressure".) To push ahead with the replacement of the government and To activate the role of the UN, she - according to Nuland - asked the UN Deputy Secretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman that the Middle East Representative Ban Ki-moons , Robert Serry , would intervene: "I think that would be very good, um to help fix it and also have the UN help fix it and you know ... Fuck the EU. "(" Fuck the EU "), to which Pyatt replied," Oh, exactly, and me think we have to do something ... "(" Oh, exactly, and I think we've got to do something ... "). The US State Department later said Nuland had apologized to her EU counterparts. The process should not be overrated either. Nuland's remarks did not reflect what she actually thought about US relations with the EU. The spokesman for US President Barack Obama , Jay Carney , indicated that from the perspective of the US government, Russia was behind the wiretapping. The YouTube video with Russian subtitles had been distributed by the government in Moscow via the online service Twitter, said Carney, "said something about Russia's role".

On February 7th, the German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced that the insult to the EU was "absolutely unacceptable".

In many media, Nuland's statement was characterized as extremely embarrassing, especially since Nuland is also tasked with improving relations between the USA and European countries that have been affected by the NSA scandal . Nuland described the wiretapping directed against them as "quite impressive espionage work".

In the course of the negotiations for a ceasefire during the war in Ukraine , Nuland was quoted as saying about the European partners "They fear damage to their economy, counter-sanctions from the Russians." And "We can fight the Europeans, rhetorically against them." fight...". German Chancellor Angela Merkel's trip to negotiations with Vladimir Putin is said to have referred to her as “Merkel's Moscow stuff”. Der Spiegel then described her as “America's riot diplomat”.

According to Garry Kasparov , based on Nuland's verbal support for the Revolution of Dignity , Russian propaganda claims that Nuland's statements are "evidence" that the Euromaidan was planned by the CIA ("... whose support for the protests is still used by Russian propaganda to "proove" the entire Euromaidan was a coup plot run by the CIA ").

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  1. ↑ Cathy Shufro: In Lost in America, a Yale surgeon opens up memories of his father. In: Yale University (English).
  2. ↑ Judy Siegel-Itzkovich: Writing books on medicine can be therapy. In: The Jerusalem Post , January 13, 2007.
  3. ↑ Salty-tongued Nuland tough cookie , Japan Times, February 9, 2014.
  4. ↑ Elise Labott: https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/01/26/politics/top-state-department-officials-asked-to-leave-by-trump-administration (English).
  5. ↑ Марионетки Майдана on YouTube
  6. ↑ a b Ukraine crisis: Transcript of leaked Nuland-Pyatt call In: BBC News , February 7, 2014 (transcription of the telephone conversation)
  7. ↑ Alan Cullison, Adam Entous: US blames Russia for Leaking Profane call. ( Memento from March 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ One ear hears the other. In: Südkurier , February 10, 2014.
  9. ↑ Christoph Sydow: US diplomat apologizes for "Fuck the EU" In: Spiegel Online , February 7, 2014.
  10. ↑ Angela Merkel outraged by Nuland's verbal derailment , Der Tagesspiegel of February 7, 2014
  11. ↑ Merkel: Absolutely unacceptable derailment. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , February 7, 2014.
  12. ↑ Johannes Kuhn: Malheur with four letters. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , February 7, 2014.
  13. ↑ Marc Pitzke : In the eavesdropping trap. In: Spiegel Online , February 8, 2014.
  14. ↑ "Cold Feet", "Bullshit", "Fear" - "What US politicians REALLY think about Germans in the Ukraine crisis" by Julian Reichelt , BILD of February 8, 2015
  15. ^ "Strategy dispute: Ukraine crisis divides USA and Europe" Matthias Gebauer, February 8, 2015, Spiegel Online
  16. ^ Matthias Gebauer and Holger Stark: "Victoria Nuland: America's riot diplomat" , Spiegel Online , February 10, 2015
  17. ↑ Garri Kimowitsch Kasparow : Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped , Verlag Hachette UK, 2015, ISBN 978-1610396219 ; "... whose support for the protests is still used by Russian propaganda to" proove "the entire Euromaidan was a coup plot run by the CIA"
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SURNAME Nuland, Victoria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nuland, Victoria Jane (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City