"Biden's War."

There's a concept in the law called "but for."*

The short definition goes something like this: "but for" this or that happening, then that other thing likely wouldn't have.  Or, if you hadn't have done so and so, then such and such wouldn't have happened.  Or if little Johnnie hadn't thrown the ball at Mrs. Brown's house, then Mrs. Brown's window wouldn't be in pieces.  It helps to assign blame, as well as legal liability.  And it's worked for first England, and then us, since the Magna Carta.  More than 500 years.  

Okay then, fellow Patriots, leaning on that concept, I'm saying that the blame for the tragedy ongoing in Ukraine is just as much the responsibility of our Joe O'Biden as it is Vlad Putin.  Why?  Goes like this:

     -    But For Joe O'Biden's having shut down the Keystone-XL Pipeline on the morning of his first day in office; and...

     - ...But For his having "green-lighted" an extension of the Strategic Arms Agreement between us and Russia, early in his first year in office, without first having demanded necessary changes; and...

     -  ...But For his having killed all drilling in Alaska's ANWR, good for more than 500,000 barrels a day, finally open after more then two decades of our trying; and...

     -  ...But For his having issued an Executive Order killing all future oil and gas leases on our public lands, which comprise more than 85% of our Country, BTW; and...

     -  ...But For his having approved - without any negotiations at all - the continuation and utilization of Russia's Nord Stream 2, a pipeline running straight THROUGH Ukraine, directly to Germany; and finally...

     -  ...But For feckless, barely-there Joe O'Biden having personally engineered and overseen our disastrous abandonment of Afghanistan, leading to the senseless loss of 13 of our best warriors as we withdrew, perhaps the very worst and most humiliating defeat America has ever suffered; 

Then I say Vlad Putin, Russia's very own dictator, witnessing all of this, and being on record for more than two decades as having said the very worst geopolitical disaster Russia ever experienced was the fall of the Soviet Union, picked exactly this time to exert his will over the world and tried to put Humpty Dumpty back together again.

So yes, it's Putin's fault.  Of course.  He's a cold-blooded ex-KGB operative, with (up to now) firm control over Russia, with a big yacht and a big house and $20 Billion in the bank.  And he wants in the worst way to make Ukraine knuckle under to his will.  To permit him to re-install a puppet regime, like he had before Zelensky and the popular revolt of 2014.  And it seems he doing it in the very worst way.

But notice, all you prospective haters out there, Putin didn't attack for the entire four years of the Trump Administration.  Nor the Geoge W. Administration.  I think he knew better.  But he took the Republic of Georgia in 2008 during the Olympics while Joe O'Biden was Obama's Vice President.  And he took Crimea while Joe O'Biden was Obama's Vice President.  See a pattern here?  Joe had a ring-side seat for what was to occur.

And so did all of those who voted for him...

*     Two little add-ons: Yes, I write long sentences.  I have long thoughts.  And second, I was trained by the Army to figure stuff out before it happens.  And to then prepare for it so it doesn't interfere with the mission.  And if it does, to "eliminate" it.  Maybe the White House could use a few folks with that training to help get their tit out of this wringer.  The wringer they put it in...