Columbia U. Professor Victoria Nuland's Role In Working For 2014 Regime Change In Ukraine Revisited
“`…Nuland (sister-in-law of Frederick Kagan, adviser to CIA and Defense brass Robert Gates and David Petraeus), played a prominent role in the not-so-civil unrest in 2013...'..."
As a press release that was posted on Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs [SIPA], titled “Ambassador Victoria Nuland Will Join SIPA Faculty”, on March 6, 2024 stated:
“…Victoria Nuland,…who served as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs for the last three years, and as Acting Deputy Secretary of State from July 2023 to February 2024, will join SIPA as…Professor in the Practice of International Diplomacy effective July 1 [2024].
“Nuland will also direct SIPA’s International Fellows Program…for Columbia University graduate students…Lastly, she will be a member of the Institute of Global Politics [IGP] affiliated faculty…
“Before she became Under Secretary in April 2021, Nuland was a Senior Counselor at the Albright Stonebridge Group, a private consulting firm. She also held positions at… the National Endowment for Democracy.
“`I’m incredibly honored to welcome Ambassador Victoria Nuland to our faculty,” said Dean [and former IDF military intelligence officer] Keren Yarhi-Milo. `As a veteran of both Democratic and Republican administrations, Toria has demonstrated an ability to transcend partisan divisions…I speak on behalf of the entire SIPA community when I say we’re just thrilled to have her.’
“Nuland, whose departure from the State Department was announced March 5 by Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, previously served during the Obama administration as Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian affairs (September 2013–January 2017) and as Spokesperson (May 2011–April 2013). In the latter position she worked directly for then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who today chairs the IGP Faculty Advisory Board at SIPA. Nuland also served as US ambassador to NATO under President George W. Bush from June 2005 to May 2008.”
Yet also, according to the book, Flashpoint In Ukraine: How the US Drive for Hegemony Risks World War III, that Stephen Lendman edited and Clarity Press published in 2014:
“Washington used its funded NGOs ($5 billion according to [then-] Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland at the National Press Club in December 2013) to begin street protests when the elected Ukrainian government turned down the offer to join the European Union…
“Victoria Nuland…was Dick Cheney’s Principal Deputy National Security Advisor…Was Permanent U.S. Representative to NATO…Was a National War College faculty member…On Sept. 18, 2013…was appointed Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and European Affairs.
“Her husband is Project for the New American Century (PNAC) co-founder Robert Kagan. He’s a neocon foreign policy theorist/hardliner. He advised John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign. He served on [Columbia U. Professor] Hillary Clinton’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board…
“…Nuland (sister-in-law of Frederick Kagan, adviser to CIA and Defense brass Robert Gates and David Petraeus), played a prominent role in the not-so-civil unrest in 2013, including appearance under the banner of Chevron at the National Press Club…At the National Press Club on Dec. 13, 2013…Nuland announced that the U.S. had spent $5 billion since 1991 `in promoting civil society…’…The New York Times never reported that the United States had `invested over 5 billion dollars’ in winning the kind of outcome it wants for Ukraine, even though she made it at a public event in Washington while the…protests were underway…”