
© Reuters/Gleb Garanich"Would you like cookies or bullets with that Coup d'etat?"
Former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili has been saying for six months that he will be back in six months! No elections are due to be held and he can't run for president again. Now, unfortunately, we might know what he meant.
On February 17 Victoria Nuland, a US Assistant Secretary of State, visited Tbilisi. She is best known for being an outspoken supporter of the coup d'etat in Kiev a year ago, which led to the violent overthrow of then-president Viktor Yanukovich and the ongoing fighting over this now nearly failed state. She appeared in Tbilisi at the same time Saakashvili officially became an "advisor" to Ukraine's new incumbent, Petro Poroshenko.
Nuland's notoriety as a field-tested battleaxe precedes her. Both she and her husband, Robert Kagan, are products of the Bush-Cheney neo-con regime and are closely linked with its "1984" mindset of conducting continuous war, which was the basis of the defence strategy outlined by the Cheney Defense Department in the waning days of the Bush Administration, the
now-notorious "Project for a New American Century".
Nuland and Kagan both subscribe to the old doctrine of "manifest destiny" which this document was based on. According to this, America must remain the undisputed leader of the world, because that is the reason for America's existence.
As a diplomat she has been employed to serve America's interests, but, like many official US representatives, she has taken the view that the US interest is the only one, there is no such thing as a general or even broader interest, as her famous "Fuck the EU" remark last year testifies.
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