I didn't know who that person was, so I had to go look it up. What turned up was a veritable fountain of weird foreign propaganda. Apparently a woman gave out cookies and now bots are here on HN.
Her name is like one of those obscure, but highly specific factoids that 9/11 truthers, flat-earthers or the chemtrail crowd share with each other and bring up at every opportunity. When someone starts telling you about the melting temperature of steel beams or the height of crematorium chimneys at Auschwitz, it's a clear sign that they've been reading conspiracy theories from the sketchiest corners of the internet. Nuland's name is a similar signal.
He is also surrounded by Silicon Valley money people who support this. Also tech workers who don't want neocon forever wars.
(I voted not for Trump but for Jill Stein, who agreed with some of Trump's positions on the Ukraine)