Ms Nuland “retired” at the age of 62. I suppose she could afford it.

Few people noticed her until her famous 2014 “fuck the EU” in a dialogue with the US Ambassador in Ukraine was leaked. The dialogue exposed US involvement in Ukraine in 2014.

She was

• acting Deputy Secretary of State
  
• former CEO of the the “think tank” Center for a New American Security (CNAS) which, according to Wikipedia as at 14 March 2024, was funded by “[n]early 30 defence contractors, including Boeing, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon; NATO; several foreign governments, including Taiwan and United Arab Emirates; the oil companies BP and Chevron; investment banks including Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase; technology firms, such as Facebook, Google, and Microsoft; the U.S. Department of State, and two different Pentagon offices.” (cf. Glenn Diesen’s book The Think Tank Racket.)
  
• board member of National Endowment for Democracy (NED)
  which is frankly funded mainly by the US government. While CIA operations used to be entirely covert, they are now to some extent conducted through innocently sounding organisations such as the” National Endowment for Democracy”.
• married to Robert Kagan.
  
  The two of them were identified, already in 2015, as a dangerous duo devoted to the Military Industrial Complex.

I suggest you take a look at Robert Wright’s article in Responsible Statecraft: A case study in American propaganda (June 12, 2022). I am going to quote a single innocuous sentence from that article, which I think is very well worth reading:

But there are two things about the Institute for the Study of War that you may not know.

Search, please do, for the numerous occurrences of the word “Kagan” in that article. I have no insight into how much they have invested in the “military industrial complex” or how much money is paid out to them every time the USA engages in a new military project. I leave that to your imagination.
Anyway, Victoria is gone.

Alas, neocon delusions of US global supremacy are not, so do not count our chickens …

She has been replaced by Kurt M. Campbell who,

• for a time, was a vice president of the “think-tank” Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) which, according to Wikipedia as at 19.03.2024, has received major funding from defence contractors such as Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, General Dynamics, Raytheon Company and General Atomics, etc., etc….
  
• co-founded and was CEO of the “think tank” Center for a New American Security (CNAS) which, as we know, was funded by “[n]early 30 defence contractors, including Boeing, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon; NATO; several foreign governments, including Taiwan and United Arab Emirates; the oil companies BP and Chevron; investment banks including Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase; technology firms, such as Facebook, Google, and Microsoft; the U.S. Department of State, and two different Pentagon offices.”

The Wikipedia article about him suggests he might be more interested in China than in Russia. We shall soon see, I fear, when they step up the military pressure around Taiwan.

We are speaking, by the way, of the assistant, or “deputy” if you will, Foreign Minister, not the “Defence” Minister.