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Recent postings have sarcastically questioned the irrationality of having a bartender in a powerful, decision-making position as she exercises rights granted to a United States Congressperson.

Now today, as the Russian invasion magnifies, the contention solidifies whereas the claim can in fact be made that the bartender herself is significantly responsible for the devastation, deaths and destruction taking place in Ukraine.

As reported back on Thursday, January 13, 2022 by Joe Gould and Courtney Albon @https://www.defensenews.com/congress: “A top Pentagon pick for President Joe Biden has criticized the Obama administration’s response to Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea from Ukraine as “too slow and too incremental,” at her confirmation hearing Thursday.

“GOP and Democratic members of the Senate Armed Services Committee grilled Celeste Wallander, a senior Russia adviser to President Barack Obama in 2014, on past and future U.S. lethal aid for Ukraine. Wallander, nominated to be assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs, said it was the wrong call not to send weapons to Ukraine.

“I believe that our response in 2014 was too slow and too incremental. And it’s confirmed by the lessons that I learned, and that I believe others in the national security community learned, to better address Russia’s ongoing aggression,” said Wallander, who would oversee U.S. military security cooperation and foreign military sales.

“Later, Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., asked whether the Obama administration had made a miscalculation by not sending Ukraine lethal weapons for fear of provoking a war with Russia. Wallander agreed.”

While Russia indeed annexed Crimea with Obama in office, a four year, peaceful, lull followed, Putin doing nothing whatsoever to antagonize, threaten or anything else held possibly suspect by a different kind of president, Donald Trump.

Then, soon  after Biden took office, Putin realizing the new president was victimized by a Congresswoman from the Bronx and her three cohorts, released his troops to capture Ukraine.

Taking those events as they happened, a definitive pattern can be seen. From Putin’s perspective opportunities were like bookends, first sensing Obama’s presidential weakness, then Trump’s strength, retuning to weakness on Biden’s arrival in the White House.

While today’s Chief Executive remains ultimate decision-maker, the decision-making itself goes far beyond simple circumstance, political considerations significantly influencing the process. As for the political considerations themselves, needing support of Progressives, concessions were traded for votes, the concessions in turn unquestionably empowering the Bronx bartender.

One element of concession regarding the bartender and her “Greens” prohibits U.S. production of oil which, had the nation remained the world’s foremost producer, Russia’s 209,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude and 500,000 bpd of other petroleum products would not have been needed. According to Forbes, “In 2021, Russia accounted for 21% of all U.S. gasoline imports, with Canada second at 17%. By value, Russian imports increased 71.05%, which is slightly less than gasoline imports from the world, which increased 80.53%. The Russian total was $12.78 billion.”

Therefore, since oil is Russia’s only significant export, American billions provided funding for the invasion into Ukraine. And by holding the president virtually hostage politically, prohibiting domestic U.S. oil production, that same Congresswoman also prohibited the taking of appropriate steps to financially curtail Putin’s Ukrainian invasion. Which means, tracing events from the start, an international conflict, harming, maiming and killing innumerable innocent beings occurred due to the irrational blathering's of a barmaid from the Bronx. 

That’s it for today folks

Adios

PS: While moonlighting from Congress, a man is at her bar, drunk. She picks him up off the floor, and offers to take him home. On the way to her car, he falls down three times. When she gets to his house, she helps him out of the car, and on the way to the front door, he falls down four more times. She rings the bell and says, “Here's your husband!” The man's wife says, “Where's his wheelchair?”