The coming defeat for the US in their proxy war against Russia in Ukraine has already claimed its first resignation.

Victoria Nuland’s “retirement” is a tell that Washington’s premier foreign policy project has failed. She was on the ground micro-managing activities during the 2014 coup, (even handing out cookies to protestors), and has overseen the State Department’s sordid involvement since the war began. No US official has been more culpable for the ill-fated NATO proxy war against Russia, which has resulted in the needless deaths of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian troops and civilians and the destruction of much of the country. 

If there was any true justice this neocon harpy would be cooling her heels in a Hague prison.

A guy can dream.

I’m pretty sure that Nuland was forced out because the loss in Ukraine is shaping up to be a Cat-5 shit-storm, a catastrophic political defeat, the like of which the US and NATO have not suffered in modern times. Some governments might fall, and there will be endless vitriol and blame as everyone else besides Nuland who was involved races to cover their ass. More significant though will be the psychological effects on the US and European foreign policy elite. For them the defeat in Ukraine seems unimaginable. It’s not hard to imagine a nervous breakdown among western elites, many of whom have probably never had no confront such a brutal reality before.

Meanwhile, they are freaking-the-fuck-out.

Last April, Poland’s President Mateusz Morawiecki gave away the mindset in a TV address when he said that, “If we lose Ukraine, we will lose the world for decades. Defeat of Ukraine could be the beginning of the end of the golden age of the West.”

I’m thinking that the rest of the world might welcome such a result. Indeed, Nuland’s departure is a sign of a deep, systemic flaw in the Western model of governance, especially the pernicious effects of neoliberalism and rule of a professional/managerial/class (PMC), who are poised to suffer extensive reputational damage.

What’s ironic is that during the first cold war, America stood for God and country against the atheist Communism of the USSR. But since the Berlin Wall came down our feral elite have been too clever by half, using multiculturalism, identity politics and neoliberalism as a solvent to dissolve societal bonds, all so they could rule unimpeded. In the USSR the governmental and intellectual elite formed a communist “vanguard of the proletariat”. Here in the homeland the PMC forms the multicultural, neoliberal “vanguard of the proletariat”.

Consider that : Russia, a state that publicly values religion, tradition, families, culture, language and history, has just defeated the Davos-directed, globalist ideology that denies and denigrates all these things. Not only will this cause an identity crisis within the PMC, it will also cruelly expose the fact that current globalist liberal ideology gives people nothing to fight for: indeed, it systematically denigrates and destroys all motives for which people have historically struggled, whether politically, industrially or militarily. Its ideology tells people that they live in evil societies which are structurally racist etc. and whose histories are a cause for shame and humiliation. Nothing is left except a society of interchangeable consumers, and you can’t require a society of consumers to die to defend the principle of markets.

Like I’ve stated repeatedly–you can’t manage an empire with neoliberalism as the operating system–and Ukraine is proving it. The loss of Ukraine and the policy changes that will follow will be a shattering blow to the self-image of the PMC and to their radical neoliberal ideology. Other countries that didn’t get with the plan were subverted, overthrown or destroyed, cheered on by successive administrations–Democrats and Republicans, all in thrall to the heady mix of neoliberalism and neoconservatism that signified the “End of History”.

So much for that nonsense. Reality has a funny way of demonstrating that “western values” and “the rules based international order” are essentially bullshit.

And now there’s nothing left for the PMC but to try to mobilize support through continued anti-Russian hatred.

Russia-gate 3.0 anyone?

Ukraine may be the rock on which the PMC and its neoliberal ideology ultimately founders, and takes the professional/managerial/class down with it. Their mistake was to eliminate society and culture in a mad pursuit of profit. For generations, we’ve all been educated to worship at the altar of private capital’s unrestrained pursuit of profit for the greatest benefit of its shareholders. This has been promoted in the academia most notably by Milton Friedman, who argued the case in his 1970 essay entitled “The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits”.

You can’t fight something with nothing: still less can you persuade other people to fight something with nothing. And ordinary Americans may just begin to wonder whether the Russians may not be onto something with this history and culture and society stuff.

I’m not holding my breath. Like I’ve said before, it will take a monumental defeat, perhaps the end of the American empire for us to be rid of our feral elite

Victoria Nuland may be the first Biden Administration official to resign or be fired over Ukraine but she won’t be the last.