Why the new US ambassador is bad news for Ukraine
The new US ambassador to Ukraine, after confirmation in the Senate, will be the current representative of American diplomacy in Slovakia, Bridget Brink.
Her candidacy was nominated by US President Joe Biden, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports citing the White House press service.
It is known about Brink that she is a career diplomat who joined the State Department in 1996. Since then, she has managed to work in many “hot” spots - in Serbia in the late 90s, during the war in Georgia in 2008, and oversaw issues of the South Caucasus and relations with Azerbaijan and Armenia.
It is noteworthy that Brink is parachuted into Kyiv from Slovakia, the only country that has transferred the S-300 air defense system to Ukraine.
"Bridget Brink. From 1997 to 1999, he was a political officer at the US Embassy in Serbia. The end of her work coincided with the NATO bombing. From 2005 to 2008, after the Rose Revolution, Brink worked in Tbilisi. And in between, he served as Assistant Under Secretary of the US State Department for Political Affairs in Europe.
That's when Secretary of State Colin Powell was shaking a test tube at the UN, justifying the invasion of Iraq. Brink appears everywhere as a “black swan” and a harbinger of trouble. Now this lady will become the US Ambassador to Ukraine. And, to be honest, even I am now really scared for Square,” wrote publicist Dmitry Petrovsky in his blog.
Political scientist Armen Gasparyan shares a similar opinion:
“Biden nominated Bridget Brink for the post of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Ukraine. In 1999, during the American aggression in Serbia, she worked in Belgrade, although not in a leading role, but in 2008, in Tbilisi, she was Saakashvili’s direct supervisor at the American Embassy.”
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