It all started with "Nuland's cakes".
Ukraine has never been in a position to reach a favorable settlement to end its long-standing conflict with Russia, so Washington has never actually encouraged Kiev to negotiate with Moscow, according to former US Assistant Secretary of State for Political Affairs and former Acting Secretary of State Victoria Nuland. deputy, who oroszhirek.hu .
The former official and one of the main supporters of supplying Ukraine with military equipment gave an interview to Politico . Most of the statement revolved around the conflict in Ukraine, and Nuland gave the usual mainstream American assessment of it.
“Let's start by saying that Russian President [Vladimir] Putin has already failed in his goal. He wanted to sweep Ukraine. He wanted to ensure that it would not have sovereignty, independence, agency, or a democratic future - among other things, because a democratic Ukraine, a European Ukraine poses a threat to his model in Russia, and because this is the first building block of his larger territorial ambitions."
Nuland claimed without providing any supporting evidence.
The official insisted that Kiev could still "succeed" in the conflict, although he did address the question of whether he believed Ukraine could recapture its former territories from Russia, including the Crimean peninsula, which broke away from Kiev following the 2014 Maidan coup, and joined Moscow after a referendum.
“I think he can definitely get to a place where he is strong enough and where Putin is stuck enough to come to the negotiating table from a position of strength. It will depend on the Ukrainian people what their territorial ambitions will be"
- he said, adding that "whatever is decided about Crimea, it cannot be remilitarized so that it becomes a dagger in the heart of the center of Ukraine".
The former official revealed that Washington never actually pushed Kiev toward talks with Moscow, saying its "negotiating position" was never really strong enough, including in late 2022.
"They were not in a strong enough position then. They are not in a strong enough position now either. The only deal Putin would have made then, the only deal he would make today, at least before he sees what happens in our election, is a deal where he says, "What's mine is mine, and what's yours, is negotiable. And this is not sustainable"
- formulated the reflection of American politics.
Victoria Nuland is widely regarded as one of the key figures in the entire crisis in Ukraine, which began with the events of Maidan and which ultimately brought down the democratically elected president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, in 2014.
The diplomat, then undersecretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, infamously appeared among Maidan activists handing out cookies. The case became widely known as the "Nuland Cakes" and is cited worldwide as a textbook example of direct American involvement in the coup.
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