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'''Victoria Nuland''' (b. 1961) is a career diplomat in the United States Foreign Service. She has held important positions in the [[Bill Clinton]], [[George W. Bush]], and [[Barack Obama]] administrations. She is fluent in Russian. She is married to prominent [[neoconservative]] ideological theoritician [[Robert Kagan]].

'''Victoria Nuland''' (born 1961) is a career diplomat in the United States Foreign Service. She has held important positions in the [[Bill Clinton]], [[George W. Bush]], and [[Barack Obama]] administrations. She is fluent in Russian. She is married to prominent [[neoconservative]] ideological theoritician [[Robert Kagan]].

==Clinton administration==

==Clinton administration==

Nuland became special envoy for Conventional Armed Forces in Europe and then became [[State Department]] spokesperson in summer 2011.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/05/16/victoria_nuland_to_be_state_department_spokesman|title=Victoria Nuland to be State Department spokesman|date=May 16, 2011|work=Foreign Policy}}</ref>  

Nuland became special envoy for Conventional Armed Forces in Europe and then became [[State Department]] spokesperson in summer 2011.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/05/16/victoria_nuland_to_be_state_department_spokesman|title=Victoria Nuland to be State Department spokesman|date=May 16, 2011|work=Foreign Policy}}</ref>  

Nuland was involved in crafting the bogus talking points in the cover up of the [[Benghazi massacre]], although the extent of her involvement was not fully revealed to Congressional investigators. Questions did come up in May 2013 when Nuland was nominated to serve as Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, covering former Soviet satalite Republics and the [[Russian Federation]]. She was sworn in to fill the office in September 2013.

Nuland was involved in crafting the bogus talking points in the cover up of the [[Benghazi massacre]], although the extent of her involvement was not fully revealed to Congressional investigators. Questions did come up in May 2013 when Nuland was nominated to serve as Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, covering former Soviet satellite Republics and the [[Russian Federation]]. She was sworn in to fill the office in September 2013.

===Arms smuggling to ISIS===

===Arms smuggling to ISIS===

Gen. [[Michael Flynn]] as Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) oversaw an analysis in 2012 that foresaw the [[Obama administration]]'s support for Syrian and foreign jihadis would create  “a declared or undeclared [[Salafi]]st principality in eastern Syria," the group that in June 2014 declared itself the [[Islamic State]] [[Caliphate]].<ref>https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2016/07/01/obama-and-the-dia-islamic-state-memo-what-trump-gets-right/ </ref>

Gen. [[Michael Flynn]] as Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) oversaw an analysis in 2012 that foresaw the [[Obama administration]]'s support for Syrian and foreign jihadis would create  “a declared or undeclared [[Salafi]]st principality in eastern Syria," the group that in June 2014 declared itself the [[Islamic State]] [[Caliphate]].<ref>https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2016/07/01/obama-and-the-dia-islamic-state-memo-what-trump-gets-right/</ref>

The partially declassified report<ref>https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/2012-report-warned-about-rise-of-isis-3wljf5g06zq </ref> embarrassed the advocates for an escalation of the war in [[Syria]] and the ouster of secular President [[Bashar al-Assad]]. Flynn went further in a 2015 interview when he said the intelligence was “very clear” that the '''Obama administration made a [[Libyan Islamic Fighting Group|“willful decision” to back the jihad]]ists in league with Middle East allies, a choice that looked particularly stupid when Islamic State militants started beheading American hostages''' and capturing cities in [[Iraq]].<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2017/02/14/trump-caves-on-flynns-resignation/ </ref>

The partially declassified report<ref>https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/2012-report-warned-about-rise-of-isis-3wljf5g06zq</ref> embarrassed the advocates for an escalation of the war in [[Syria]] and the ouster of secular President [[Bashar al-Assad]]. Flynn went further in a 2015 interview when he said the intelligence was “very clear” that the '''Obama administration made a [[Libyan Islamic Fighting Group|“willful decision” to back the jihad]]ists in league with Middle East allies, a choice that looked particularly stupid when Islamic State militants started beheading American hostages''' and capturing cities in [[Iraq]].<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2017/02/14/trump-caves-on-flynns-resignation/</ref>

===Ukrainian coup===

===Ukrainian coup===

After Trump's victory the anti-Russian hysteria gained added strength as Democrats were so angry that [[liberal]] and [[progressive]] operatives saw a chance to build a movement and raise lots of money by pushing the Trump-Putin accusations.

After Trump's victory the anti-Russian hysteria gained added strength as Democrats were so angry that [[liberal]] and [[progressive]] operatives saw a chance to build a movement and raise lots of money by pushing the Trump-Putin accusations.

This opportunism turned much of the liberal/progressive community into a new pro-Cold War constituency, willing to engage in a new breed of [[McCarthyism]], by demanding investigations into any relations between Americans and Russians.<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2017/02/14/trump-caves-on-flynns-resignation/ </ref>

This opportunism turned much of the liberal/progressive community into a new pro-Cold War constituency, willing to engage in a new breed of [[McCarthyism]], by demanding investigations into any relations between Americans and Russians.<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2017/02/14/trump-caves-on-flynns-resignation/</ref>

==Post government==

==Post government==