US envoy coming to Sri Lanka for second time in ten months

Victoria Nuland, the United States Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, will be visiting Sri Lanka next week for the second time in ten months.

But more than her diplomacy, she is often remembered worldwide for the commanding role she played in manipulating Ukraine’s Revolution that overthrew the pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych, and, of course, also for her famous “F*** the EU” outburst -that was leaked online -- when she realised the European Union was dragging its feet to join her regime change plans.

Although it is an exaggeration to say that wherever Ms Nuland goes, political upheaval, like Mary’s lamb, follows her, it was only weeks after she was in Sri Lanka in March last year that the first shots of Sri Lanka’s Aragalaya were fired.