The Queen of the 2014 Maidan coup in Ukraine, Acting Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland is now traipsing around in South Africa, and also Ivory Coast and the Democratic Republic of Congo (D.R.C.), officially proselytizing about “regional peace and security” and “democratic governance.” But her showing up first in South Africa, just three weeks before the Aug. 22-24 BRICS summit in Johannesburg, augurs nothing good.
It’s worth recalling the article published on July 19 in Foreign Policy, speaking for Anglo-American interests, under the blaring headline “Inside the Desperate Diplomatic Efforts To Salvage U.S.-South Africa Ties.” South Africa’s close ties to Russia, are “leading to a series of diplomatic headaches that have shaken ties between the United States and South Africa and led to calls in Washington for a complete overhaul of the relationship,” intoned Robbie Gramer, reporting that Nuland, as well as prominent members of Congress, would soon descend on South Africa to straighten that government out. (https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/07/19/south-africa-russia-putin-ukraine-war-global-south-agoa-biden-diplomacy/)
