EDITOR—The panel discusses the retirement of Victoria Nuland, one of the vilest warmongering Neocons to ever occupy a position of power inside the State Dept. and the National Security fraternity; a war criminal (like the rest of the top foreign policy machine of this country), of unusual single-mindedness in the prosecution of her projects, a trait that spelled wholesale social dislocation, destruction and death in many countries around the globe, especially in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. The roundtable wonders what might have prompted this sudden departure, and whether this might be traced to the political and strategic crisis facing the Biden administration, or some skeletons in Nuland’s closet, a good probability considering the corruption drowning Ukraine and the depth of her involvement in that country.
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EDITOR—Glenn wonders what prompted Nuland to retire at this point, conjecturing that it might be her impatience with the pace of “support” for Ukraine, or Biden’s trepidation toward Israel, a country she identifies with more than any other, including the US. Nuland, notes Glenn, of Ukrainian descent, has long sat at the core of one of US Neocons most powerful clans, the Kagans, a group connected to the Kristols, both prominent in promoting (sadly, successfully), the extension of US “democracy and freedom” to other lands frequently via coups, regime change ops, invasions, sanctions, bribes, and color revolutions.
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CRADLE IRAQ CORRESPONDENT—Members of the Iraqi Council of Representatives are actively working to proceed with a law to remove foreign forces from Iraq, with majority representation from Shia-dominated central and southern Iraq. However, Sunni factions remain ambiguous in their stance toward the coordination framework blocs’ efforts to enact such legislation. In addition, Kurdish parties, notably the Kurdistan Democratic Party, vehemently oppose any consideration of US military withdrawal from Iraq.
In response to these dynamics, the Russian Foreign Ministry has expressed Moscow’s willingness to bolster Iraqi forces following the departure of unwanted foreign troops. The Russian offer has compounded the pressure on Washington, prompting a reassessment of the waning US strategic position in West Asia.
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EDITOR—The repugnant corruption of the UK’s duopoly—Tories and Labour, a mirror to America’s own rotten political arrangement—is apparently accelerating the rise of challengers. George Galloway’s victory in Rochdale, and the existence of his own party, The Workers’ Party, also indicate a possible fracture in the long-held political monopoly exercised by the two establishment parties, and it couldnt happen too soon, as the Gaza tragedy has shown.
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JORDAN SCHACHTEL—Nuland began her tenure in the Obama Administration as the State Department spokesperson.
From 2013 to 2015 Nuland’s portfolio was dominated by Eastern Europe and Russia. She was the American point person for the infamous “Maidan uprising” in Ukraine, which resulted in the ouster of the country’s elected president. Critics of the Nuland-led campaign have labeled her activities in Ukraine as a successful coup effort in a foreign country.
