It was none other than Victoria Nuland, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, who told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee just moments after the Biden-Putin summit concluded on Dec. 7, that the Biden administration was preparing deadly economic and military measures against Russia. Nuland—who personally orchestrated the 2014 pro-Nazi coup d’état in Ukraine which began the current trajectory towards a U.S. and NATO war with Russia—set out the pro-war “line” about the summit, even before Secretary of State Tony Blinken and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan hit the airwaves later that evening with the same line.
“The intent is to make clear that the initial sanctions in response to any further aggressive moves in Ukraine will be extremely significant and isolating for Russia and for Russian business and for the Russian people,” Nuland told the Senators. She further stated that the Ukrainian military had received new weapons and training from a U.S.-led coalition, and that “the Russians will have a very big fight on their hands, there will be severe casualties for them.” Committee chairman Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) chimed in: “What is being discussed are the maximum end of the spectrum, or what I have called, ‘The mother of all sanctions.’”
It was later on the evening of Dec. 7 that the demented Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS), the second ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, stated on a Fox News appearance that the U.S. should consider using a nuclear first strike against Russia. “Military action could mean that we stand off with our ships in the Black Sea, and we rain destruction on Russian military capability.… It could mean that we participate, and I would not rule that out, I would not rule out American troops on the ground. We don’t rule out first use nuclear action.”
