A really unfortunate aspect of the House being on vacation until the end of the month is that Putin will be very happy to celebrate no help for Ukraine. I think we can be quite certain that Putin is planning some major celebration, or massive attack on Ukraine, for the second anniversary of his unsuccessful attack on Kiev and the heart of Ukraine on Feb. 24th. Or maybe he will ignore that failure, and just celebrate all the destruction he has caused in eastern Ukraine and Crimea.
After all, his main goal has been to steal the underground resources of coal and iron in eastern Ukraine, and natural gas and petroleum there and surrounding Crimea. Putin doesn’t care he is flattening the Ukraine cities, he just wants to prevent Ukraine from providing these resources to the rest of Europe as part of his plan to build a greater Eurasia controlled by Russia. Hopefully we will never need those resources. See below:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics This book was written by a man referred to as “Putin’s Brain” and outlines the plan now being followed by Putin in great detail.
The biggest disaster for the Republicans would be images of Russian troops marching into Kiev.