The average American certainly doesn’t care about the 17,000 Ukraine citizens who have already died in this little border action. They cared a lot more about the 3,000 Americans who died on 9/11. Comparing our population with Ukraine’s 42 million means proportionally if the Ukraine were our size it would be over 130,000 already killed by Russian action.
Her years starting under the Foreign Service started under Reagan, but that was a “grooming” exercise. Again, with her knowledge of Russia probably intelligence since again, that phase was scrubbed.