Former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland recently admitted that the Biden regime discouraged Ukraine from signing a peace deal with Russia in the early stages of the Russian incursion into Ukraine.
Nuland made these revelations during an interview that was published on YouTube on September 3, 2024.
Mikhail Zygar, a Russian journalist living in Germany, questioned Nuland about former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennet’s assertion that the United States and its allies derailed his attempts at mediation and reports of former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson pushing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to not sign off on a peace deal.
Zygar also called attention to how David Arakhamia, a Ukrainian official who was in charge of negotiations with Russia during a meeting in Istanbul in March 2022, admitted in 2023 that a deal was still viable at the time and that Russia’s principal demand was for Ukraine to remain neutral.
Nuland argued the US took a relaxed approach to the negotiations in their initial stages and said it wasn’t until “relatively late in the game” that the Ukrainians started to turn to the US and its NATO allies for advice on how to negotiate with Russia.
“The Ukrainians began asking for advice on where this thing was going, and it became clear to us, clear to us and the Brits, clear to others, that Putin’s main condition was buried in an annex to this document that they were working on. And it included limits on the precise kinds of weapons systems that Ukraine could have after the deal,” Nuland stated.
She claimed that the deal would have “neutered” Ukraine militarily and added that the Russian military is not facing similar restraints. “People inside Ukraine and people outside Ukraine started asking questions about whether this was a good deal, and it was at that point that it fell apart,” Nuland said.
Back on April 9, 2022, Ukrainska Pravda reported that former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, while on a diplomatic mission to Ukraine, told Zelensky that even if Ukraine was ready to sign a deal with Russia, the “collective West” was in no position to do so. Arakhamia shared the Ukrainian media outlet’s observation in November 2023, declaring that when the negotiators came back from Istanbul, Johnson visited Ukraine and “said that we would not sign anything with them at all, and let’s just fight.”
On April 20, 2022, when the negotiations fell apart, then-Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu stated Turkey believed a deal could be hammered out after the Istanbul talks, but then it started to believe that several NATO members wanted to extend the war in an effort to degrade Russia’s military capabilities.
“After the talks in Istanbul, we did not think that the war would take this long … But, following the NATO foreign ministers’ meeting, it was the impression that… there are those within the NATO member states that want the war to continue, let the war continue and Russia gets weaker. They don’t care much about the situation in Ukraine,” Cavusoglu stated.
US foreign policy has been fixated with getting back at Russia after Vladimir Putin rejected Western plans to turn Russia into its colony as seen by the disastrous liberal reforms of the 1990s. It has also endeavored to prevent the rise of a strong Russia that could potentially ally with Germany, thereby rendering any type Anglo-American influence on the Old Continent irrelevant.
Combined with the ethnic grievances that the likes of Victoria Nuland and other other conservatives of Russian Jewish extraction hold, where they are convinced that Putin is the second coming of a neo-Czar that’s about to initiate a program against Jews, US foreign policy against Russia is destined to be irrational.
Unfortunately, until there’s a complete replacement of the ruling class, foreign policy towards Russia will continue to be hawkish in Clown World USA.