Dramatis Personae Flashcards
Oleh Tyahnybok
Ukrainian politician, Rada member, leader of the Svoboda party
Svoboda (Freedom) was created in 2004, and was a rebranding of the explicity fascist “Social Nationalist” party
Bruce Jackson
VP for Strategy and Planning at Lockheed
Foreign policy advisory team for McCain 2008
2000 Republican National Convention: Chair of Platform Subcommittee for Foreign Policy, presidential campaign (George W. Bush).
Various other political positions
Founder of U.S. Committee to Expand NATO, later renamed The U.S. Committee on NATO (which is exactly what it sound like)
Founder and president of the Project on Transitional Democracies for the Project for the New American Century, a group that promotes NATO membership for E-European countries.
Michael McFaul
US Ambassador to Russia 2010-2012
Victoria Nuland
Washington lifer. Queen of coups. Active in Maidan Revolution of 2014. “Yats is the guy.”
US Ambassador to NATO 2005-2008
Spokesperson for Dept of State 2011-2013
Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs 2013-2017
Deputy Secretary of State 2023-2024
Under Secretary of State for Public Affairs 2021-2024
Zbigniew Brzezinski
U.S. international relations scholar and national security adviser in the administration of President Jimmy Carter.
Outlook is somewhat nuanced, but mostly hawkish in effect, and generally leaning toward realism. He was an influential voice in the foreign policy world.
Andriy Biletsky
Ukrainian neo-Nazi politician, first leader of the Azov Battalion per se.
Madeleine Albright
Sec of State under Bill Clinton, 1997-2001
The 500,000 dead Iraqi children were worth it. (She later apologized)
