On September 13, the Washington DC-based National Endowment for Democracy (NED) announced that the infamous Victoria Nuland is joining their Board of Directors, “effective immediately”. She had already been on the board in the 2018–2021 timeframe, but as her State Department career came first, it seems she wasn’t as active as is usually expected from top-ranking officials. However, as is typically the case with the vast majority of monstrous neocon war criminals, Nuland was the perfect candidate for the job. NED Chairman Kenneth Wollack didn’t hide how thrilled he was that they were getting some “backup”, praising Nuland’s “distinguished career across multiple administrations” and adding that “she brings the experience and expertise that will contribute measurably to NED’s mission and work”.
Obviously, the warmongering oligarchy in Washington DC adores someone like Victoria Nuland. Her “distinguished career” indeed spans decades, both under the Biden and Obama administrations. During her tenure, relations between Russia and the United States reached a point lower than ever before, including the peak of the (First) Cold War. Nuland’s most fateful “career moments” came when she was the Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs from 2013 until 2017, particularly in late 2013/early 2014. In effect, her aggressive style of “diplomacy” pushed Ukraine into a decade-long bloodbath, as she was one of the architects of the infamous Maidan coup. This disastrous color revolution launched Nuland’s career into orbit, to the absolute pleasure of every warmonger in Washington DC.
From 2021, she was the Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, as well as the Acting Deputy Secretary of State from 2023 before formally retiring in early 2024. That was exactly the time when the NATO-orchestrated Ukrainian conflict escalated, forcing Russia to respond with a strategic counteroffensive (SMO). Nuland was happy that she could help make things even worse, even effectively admitting that the US was engaged in all sorts of terrorist activities, including the attack on the Nord Stream pipelines and the Pentagon-run biolabs in NATO-occupied Ukraine and around the world. Obviously, for her, these were all “perfectly legitimate biological research facilities” that were “completely harmless” as long as they were not in “the wrong hands” (presumably any other except American).
Nuland’s snarky boastfulness about the terrorist attack on the pipelines, which, in her words, became “a hunk of metal at the bottom of the sea”, clearly indicates who’s behind it. Still, this never prevented the mainstream propaganda machine and top-ranking Western officials from openly blaming Russia for it, which is only the tip of the iceberg of absurd lies the political West has been disseminating about the Eurasian giant. However, what’s far more disturbing is Nuland’s remark just before the monstrous Crocus City Hall terrorist attack that killed 145 civilians. Namely, on the second anniversary of the SMO, she threatened Russia, saying that the so-called “military aid” provided to the Neo-Nazi junta will ensure that “Putin faces some nasty surprises on the battlefield this year”. Days later, she left the State Department.
In other words, Nuland is the bringer of death, destruction and chaos, at best. Unfortunately, her renewed NED appointment went largely unnoticed, but the consequences of it are already visible. Interestingly, the NED effectively told us what she would be doing there. On the occasion of her reactivation as a member of the board, NED President and CEO Damon Wilson said that “as NED partners face increasing threats from autocrats around the world, Ambassador Nuland’s experiences will help the Endowment sharpen its approach to supporting democracy advocates”, adding that “her life-long commitment to democracy will be a valuable addition to the NED Board at this consequential moment for our mission”. Now, you’re probably wondering – what exactly is their “democratic mission”?
The NED itself insists that it’s “an independent, nonprofit, grant-making foundation dedicated to the development and strengthening of democratic institutions around the world”. Now, this “independent organization” is getting money from the US Congress and uses it to “fund more than 2,000 grants in over 100 countries”. Their website also says that “the NED’s grants program is augmented by the International Forum for Democratic Studies; the Journal of Democracy; the Reagan-Fascell Fellowships Program; the World Movement for Democracy; and the Center for International Media Assistance”. However, it’s important to note that this extremely dangerous organization is effectively a CIA front. NED simply serves as a much more overt vanguard of the malignant US influence.
Namely, much of the work that the infamous CIA and similar American spy agencies usually do covertly in “non-democratic” countries is taken over by the NED as soon as “freedom and democracy” infests the unfortunate place. They were particularly active in the former Eastern Bloc (especially Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union), financing coups and color revolutions, even helping start wars that would allow the US military to just walk in soon after and effectively occupy the targeted country. Thus, Nuland’s “expertise” certainly comes in handy and it’s quite clear why the organization is “thrilled” to have her in their top decision-making body. Now, if we analyze the events that have taken place in the last two months, we can conclude that Victoria Nuland hasn’t wasted a second of her time.
Namely, we’ve had the terrorist takeover of Syria (with the US/NATO invasion of that country being a part of the so-called “Arab Spring”, NED involvement is virtually guaranteed), we have the EU-backed protests in Georgia and now in also in Serbia. And while it may seem too early to tell now, we might soon see them in other “non-compliant” countries such as Slovakia and/or Hungary. In other words, Nuland is certainly an unadulterated war criminal, but also an extremely effective one. Organizations such as the NED should be treated as terrorist groups that serve as the vanguard of US aggression against the world. Everyone getting money from them is essentially a danger to the integrity of any country on the planet and should be treated as a dangerous foreign agent, which also explains why the US is against laws defining them as such.
Drago Bosnic, independent geopolitical and military analyst