The entire globe is intertwined. Conflict anywhere has the very real possibility of becoming conflict everywhere. It's in every countries best interest to do what they can to maintain peace, no matter how far away from home that peace is.
How did Victoria Nuland handing out cookies in Maidan Square as a mob overthrew the Ukraine's elected government contribute to peace?
Yanukovych has been accused, by Amnesty International[196][197] among others, of using the Berkut to threaten, attack, and torture protesters. The Berkut, later disbanded on 25 February 2014, were a special police force under his personal command and were accused of defending Russian interests.[185]
Violence escalated after 16 January 2014, when Yanukovych signed draconian Anti-Protest Laws. The first protesters were killed in fierce clashes with police on Hrushevsky Street on 19–22 January."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Yanukovych#Euromaidan_p...
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)