According to the Associated Press on March 6, U.S. Secretary of State Blinken issued a statement on the U.S. on the 5th, saying that Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, the No. 3 person in the United States, is ready to resign from his current position in the next few weeks. According to the Associated Press, Nuland is often criticized for her hawkish views on Russia.
*Screenshot from the Associated Press.
According to the report, Nuland served as assistant secretary of state for European affairs in Obama**, left after Trump's election**, and then served as undersecretary of state for political affairs in Biden**.
Nuland served at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow in the 90s, and subsequently, she became U.S. ambassador to NATO, and was appointed by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as a spokesperson during Obama's first term.
According to the Associated Press, after Blinken announced that Nuland would resign, Russia immediately seized the opportunity, saying that it was an admission by the United States of a failure of its policy toward Russia. "They won't tell you why," said Zakharova, a spokeswoman for Russia. "But the reason is simple, and that is the failure of Biden's ** anti-Russian line. Victoria Nuland's Russophobia, the main foreign policy concept of the United States, is dragging the Democratic Party to the bottom like a stone. ”
The Associated Press said Nuland's position as undersecretary of state would be temporarily replaced by John Bass. Bass was the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan and oversaw the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. He is currently the Under Secretary of State for Management.
The United States said that the popular candidate to succeed Nuland is the current US representative to NATO, Julianne Smith, a former Pentagon who also served as deputy adviser during the Obama period.
Chen Jia.