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> It's in every countries best interest to do what they can to maintain peace, no matter how far away from home that peace is. How did Victoria Nuland handing

> It's in every countries best interest to do what they can to maintain peace, no matter how far away from home that peace is. How did Victoria Nuland handing out cookies in Maidan Square as a mob overthrew the Ukraine's elected government contribute to peace?

matthewdgreen 2y ago
I didn't know who that person was, so I had to go look it up. What turned up was a veritable fountain of weird foreign propaganda. Apparently a woman gave out cookies and now bots are here on HN.
- throwaway48476 2y ago
  I think I heard of this before. I've seen the bots say the cookies were poisoned with democracy. Hilarious
- regularization 2y ago
  Trump was elected to do this, so I guess "bots" means the majority of Americans who elected him. He is also surrounded by Silicon Valley money people who support this. Also tech workers who don't want neocon forever wars. (I voted not for Trump but for Jill Stein, who agreed with some of Trump's positions on the Ukraine)
  - Mr_Bees69 2y ago
    The Ukraine? The tzar's been dead for a while lol.
- mopsi 2y ago
  She is a weird centerpiece of Russian-pushed conspiracy theories that attempt to convince that a relatively unknown middle manager from the US State Department was a mastermind in a vast conspiracy that pitted Ukraine against Russia, which left Russia no other option than to invade Ukraine and start raping and killing there. Her name is like one of those obscure, but highly specific factoids that 9/11 truthers, flat-earthers or the chemtrail crowd share with each other and bring up at every opportunity. When someone starts telling you about the melting temperature of steel beams or the height of crematorium chimneys at Auschwitz, it's a clear sign that they've been reading conspiracy theories from the sketchiest corners of the internet. Nuland's name is a similar signal.
Mr_Bees69 2y ago
"During the 'Maidan uprising', Independence Square was a huge protest camp occupied by thousands of protesters and protected by makeshift barricades. It had kitchens, first aid posts and broadcasting facilities, as well as stages for speeches, lectures, debates and performances.[194][195] Police assaulted the camp several times, causing further anger. Yanukovych has been accused, by Amnesty International[196][197] among others, of using the Berkut to threaten, attack, and torture protesters. The Berkut, later disbanded on 25 February 2014, were a special police force under his personal command and were accused of defending Russian interests.[185] Violence escalated after 16 January 2014, when Yanukovych signed draconian Anti-Protest Laws. The first protesters were killed in fierce clashes with police on Hrushevsky Street on 19–22 January." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Yanukovych#Euromaidan_protests https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Yanukovych#Euromaidan_p...

matthewdgreen 2y ago

I didn't know who that person was, so I had to go look it up. What turned up was a veritable fountain of weird foreign propaganda. Apparently a woman gave out cookies and now bots are here on HN.

throwaway48476 2y ago
I think I heard of this before. I've seen the bots say the cookies were poisoned with democracy. Hilarious
regularization 2y ago
Trump was elected to do this, so I guess "bots" means the majority of Americans who elected him. He is also surrounded by Silicon Valley money people who support this. Also tech workers who don't want neocon forever wars. (I voted not for Trump but for Jill Stein, who agreed with some of Trump's positions on the Ukraine)
- Mr_Bees69 2y ago
  The Ukraine? The tzar's been dead for a while lol.
mopsi 2y ago
She is a weird centerpiece of Russian-pushed conspiracy theories that attempt to convince that a relatively unknown middle manager from the US State Department was a mastermind in a vast conspiracy that pitted Ukraine against Russia, which left Russia no other option than to invade Ukraine and start raping and killing there. Her name is like one of those obscure, but highly specific factoids that 9/11 truthers, flat-earthers or the chemtrail crowd share with each other and bring up at every opportunity. When someone starts telling you about the melting temperature of steel beams or the height of crematorium chimneys at Auschwitz, it's a clear sign that they've been reading conspiracy theories from the sketchiest corners of the internet. Nuland's name is a similar signal.

Mr_Bees69 2y ago

"During the 'Maidan uprising', Independence Square was a huge protest camp occupied by thousands of protesters and protected by makeshift barricades. It had kitchens, first aid posts and broadcasting facilities, as well as stages for speeches, lectures, debates and performances.[194][195] Police assaulted the camp several times, causing further anger. Yanukovych has been accused, by Amnesty International[196][197] among others, of using the Berkut to threaten, attack, and torture protesters. The Berkut, later disbanded on 25 February 2014, were a special police force under his personal command and were accused of defending Russian interests.[185] Violence escalated after 16 January 2014, when Yanukovych signed draconian Anti-Protest Laws. The first protesters were killed in fierce clashes with police on Hrushevsky Street on 19–22 January." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Yanukovych#Euromaidan_protests https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Yanukovych#Euromaidan_p...