Former Office Occupant has gone full Victoria Nuland's Cookies* regarding Ukraine
I'm not going to bother linking to his Truth Social post, but if you want to go there, the video is there.
In it, he repeats his claim that he can somehow supposedly end the war in Ukraine within 24 hours. (How? By giving it all to Putin?)
But more notably, at one point in his three minute video rant, he says, "For decades, we've had the very same people, such as Victoria Nuland, and many others just like her, obsessed with pushing Ukraine towards NATO. Not to mention the State Department's support for uprisings in Ukraine. These people have been seeking confrontation for a long time."
Notably, he mentions Victoria Nuland--the former Assistant Secretary of State under President Obama--by name, although the manner in which he says it suggests he doesn't seem to actually know who she is.
*"Victoria Nuland's Cookies" refers to the conspiracy theory posited by anti-Ukrainian/pro-Russian propagandists that the 2013-14 Maidan Protests--which lead to the former pro-Russian president of Ukraine, Victor Yanukovych, leaving the country for Russia--was in fact a US sponsored coup.
Supporters of the theory point to the fact that Nuland once visited the Maidan protests in December 2013 and handed out baked goods to protestors, as well as once having a phone discussion with the US Ambassador to Ukraine about which individuals might succeed Yanukovych if he were to leave power.
However, besides these two isolated incidents, there is nothing to suggest that Nuland or the US government engineered a coup in Ukraine, as the Maidan Protests were massive (attracting hundreds of thousands of protesters in Kyiv alone) and had popular support across the entire country. Yanukovych used his Berkut police force (later appropriated by Putin) to attempt to violently crack down on the protests and there were nearly 100 people shot by snipers on one day alone. Ultimately, Yanukovych chose to flee Ukraine for Rostov-on-Don, Russia, taking three days at the height of the protests to pack up his valuable goods from his suburban estate.
Interesting that Trump seems to have fully embraced this noxious conspiracy theory, which was heavily propagated across the internet in 2014, even by many here at DU (although most supporters of the theory have subsequently left DU.)
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