I think your reading of the internal policy machinations and transfer of balance of power within the Beltway is accurate. Nuland did pull off some successful color revolutions, but I'm not sure how long those will endure.
A perceived greater need to support Israel in its war may also have contributed.
But mostly, I am "unsettled" as to how Europe will handle the new crisis on its hands. The Ukrainian West is not the pool of migrants that you want flooding your borders, and this will only strengthen the voices of Orban and others who can now claim they were right all along.
Brussels is as due for an earthquake as Washington D.C.
Squealer Pig is out, thank Goodness. I think you’re right and a part of me just fears they’ll bring someone worse… for what it’s worth, it’s gonna be fun seeing Europe alone in the room looking around like Travolta in Pulp Fiction.
Can’t wait to see her re-assigned to Poland to complete that country’s descent to total gay-dom (not that the Poles need any help with that).
With luck, she’ll cock it up so bad that Polish partitioning will be back on the table in a decade or so and we can finally be rid of that insufferable place.
The smart thing would be to wash our hands of it all. But there is now a large trained and blooded group of Ukes trained by the CIA who are probably going to be really salty that with our cheering lost half their country and got hundreds of thousands killed. So we either find them work, give all identities to the Russians or be ready for an al Qaida type situation. And there are now a lot of Ukes in the US so they will blend right in. Not to mention an open border.
Since you asked, I think you underrate the role of MIC in this entire thing. There is no real strategy driving things. The Utility of the Ukraine war was defending and expanding pentagon baseline budget after the withdrawal from Afghanistan
I guess I just instantly assume that she'll be doing the same thing in a shadowy non-governmental capacity, somehow exerting at least as much influence and power. Also, they called her "Toria" in Blinken's press release. I threw up in my mouth.
One could always hope that this is rats leaving a sinking ship situation but of course there's plenty of other ships that these rats are likely to jump on
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The "pivot to East Asia" is going to involve ramming wokeness down the throats of the Japanese, isn't it? :(
I think our author is right, her maximalist position is now out of favour.
Sounds right
Someone suggested that I write up a Vicki Nuland retrospective.
I think that this is a good idea.
I think your reading of the internal policy machinations and transfer of balance of power within the Beltway is accurate. Nuland did pull off some successful color revolutions, but I'm not sure how long those will endure.
A perceived greater need to support Israel in its war may also have contributed.
But mostly, I am "unsettled" as to how Europe will handle the new crisis on its hands. The Ukrainian West is not the pool of migrants that you want flooding your borders, and this will only strengthen the voices of Orban and others who can now claim they were right all along.
Brussels is as due for an earthquake as Washington D.C.
Squealer Pig is out, thank Goodness. I think you’re right and a part of me just fears they’ll bring someone worse… for what it’s worth, it’s gonna be fun seeing Europe alone in the room looking around like Travolta in Pulp Fiction.
Every officeholder leaves office eventually, one way or the other.
The question remains whether US policy will change at all.
Can’t wait to see her re-assigned to Poland to complete that country’s descent to total gay-dom (not that the Poles need any help with that).
With luck, she’ll cock it up so bad that Polish partitioning will be back on the table in a decade or so and we can finally be rid of that insufferable place.
The smart thing would be to wash our hands of it all. But there is now a large trained and blooded group of Ukes trained by the CIA who are probably going to be really salty that with our cheering lost half their country and got hundreds of thousands killed. So we either find them work, give all identities to the Russians or be ready for an al Qaida type situation. And there are now a lot of Ukes in the US so they will blend right in. Not to mention an open border.
Since you asked, I think you underrate the role of MIC in this entire thing. There is no real strategy driving things. The Utility of the Ukraine war was defending and expanding pentagon baseline budget after the withdrawal from Afghanistan
I guess I just instantly assume that she'll be doing the same thing in a shadowy non-governmental capacity, somehow exerting at least as much influence and power. Also, they called her "Toria" in Blinken's press release. I threw up in my mouth.
Good fucking riddance
She will become a board member at CFR.
One could always hope that this is rats leaving a sinking ship situation but of course there's plenty of other ships that these rats are likely to jump on