{"id":241956,"date":"2023-08-14T12:00:56","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T11:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=241956"},"modified":"2023-08-10T04:49:18","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T03:49:18","slug":"victoria-nuland-has-gone-to-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/08\/victoria-nuland-has-gone-to-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria Nuland Has Gone to Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_241957\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/victoria-nuland-usa-eu-cartoon.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-241957\" class=\"wp-image-241957\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/victoria-nuland-usa-eu-cartoon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/victoria-nuland-usa-eu-cartoon.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/victoria-nuland-usa-eu-cartoon-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-241957\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">China Daily<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>9 Aug 2023 &#8211; Victoria<em> Nuland has gone to Africa. Gone to Africa to talk some sense into the Nigeriens and convince them to return to the shackles of Paris. Gone to Africa to harvest blood diamonds and cobalt. Gone to Africa to masturbate on Gaddafi\u2019s grave.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Victoria Nuland <a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2023\/08\/07\/victoria-nuland-meets-with-niger-junta-leaders\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">has gone to Africa<\/a>.<br \/>\nGone to Africa to talk some sense into the Nigeriens<br \/>\nand convince them to return to the shackles of Paris.<br \/>\nGone to Africa to harvest blood diamonds and cobalt.<br \/>\nGone to Africa to masturbate on Gaddafi\u2019s grave.<br \/>\nGone to Africa to trade glass beads for slaves.<\/p>\n<p>Victoria Nuland has gone to Africa<br \/>\nto help the bank boys keep their dicks in the mother continent,<br \/>\nto help keep the siphon tubes stuck into the mother continent,<br \/>\nto help keep the Russians and Chinese out of the mother continent.<br \/>\nTraveling around the mother continent in the mask of a medieval plague doctor,<br \/>\ncollecting the fat leeches and replacing them with new ones.<\/p>\n<p>The AFRICOM emblem <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Africa_Command\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">looks like a vagina<\/a>,<br \/>\nand Victoria Nuland looks like an involuntary pelvic exam.<br \/>\nShe makes me feel like a lost kid in a cornfield at dusk.<br \/>\nShe has mushroom clouds in her eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Soon Victoria will leave Africa and go home,<br \/>\nback to the land where corporations are people and flags are gods,<br \/>\nwhere the presidents have dementia and the poor have college degrees,<br \/>\nwhere alienation flows like water and bullet casings fall like rain,<br \/>\nwhere people wear airpods to mute the screams of their hearts and the homeless,<br \/>\nwhere the middle class talk only to their Uber drivers and strangers they\u2019ve mistaken for their Uber drivers,<br \/>\nwhere soldiers march for fascism while flying rainbow flags,<br \/>\nwhere war is a lucrative industry and journalism is a crime.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019ll come home to a house that no millennial will ever be able to afford,<br \/>\ninto the loving embrace of her blood-spattered husband.<br \/>\nThey will make freakish, horrifying love that night,<br \/>\nand she will fall asleep and dream of passing out cookies<br \/>\nwhile the world turns to fire.<\/p>\n<p>I had a dream, too.<br \/>\nOne of the strange ones that always come true.<br \/>\nA pentagon was smashed to pieces by a giant black fist.<br \/>\nI don\u2019t know what it means<br \/>\nor what future it portends,<br \/>\nbut I do know Victoria Nuland<br \/>\nwasn\u2019t passing out any damn cookies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">_________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Caitlin-Johnstone.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-180156\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Caitlin-Johnstone.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Caitlin Johnstone is a rogue journalist, poet, and utopia prepper who publishes regularly\u00a0<\/em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@caityjohnstone\" ><i>at <\/i><\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@caityjohnstone\" >Medium<\/a><\/span>. <em>Contact: <\/em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/TRANSCEND\/T%20M%20S\/TO%20POST\/A%20BYLINES\/admin@caitlinjohnstone.com\">admin@caitlinjohnstone.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com.au\/2023\/08\/09\/victoria-nuland-has-gone-to-africa\/\" >Go to Original \u2013 caitlinjohnstone.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>9 Aug 2023 &#8211; Victoria Nuland has gone to Africa. Gone to Africa to talk some sense into the Nigeriens and convince them to return to the shackles of Paris. Gone to Africa to harvest blood diamonds and cobalt. 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