Condoleeza Rice, who served as President George W. Bush’s hawkish Secretary of State, is said to have befuddled attendees of this year’s secretive Alfalfa Club dinner in Washington, D.C. this week. The Spectator reports: “Condoleezza Rice left many members puzzled and dismayed as she led the singing of the Ukrainian national anthem on stage while she played piano, as the Ukrainian ambassador looked on approvingly.”
The Alfalfa Club is a D.C. political-social club that hosts a black tie dinner on the last Saturday of January every year. The club dates back to when four Southerners came together at the Willard Hotel to celebrate the birthday of General Robert E. Lee. Bill Clinton famously boycotted the club for not allowing women in, while Barack Obama mocked the organization’s inception in 2009, stating: “This dinner began almost one hundred years ago as a way to celebrate the birthday of General Robert E. Lee. If he were here with us tonight, the General would be 202 years old. And very confused.”
Tickets to the event cost at least $500, and the event is customarily apolitical. Club members were therefore “aghast” that Rice “turned the normally light-hearted, apolitical Alfalfa soirée into a Ukraine extravaganza,” Cockburn writes, and some attendees even left the room in protest. “Rice’s direct appeal to support Ukraine [was] a violation of the club’s norms,” Cockburn explains. “Ukraine supporters are at risk of becoming the ‘CrossFitters of politics’ for their inability to talk about anything else,” one source said.
Globalists and war hawks in both the Democratic and Republican Parties have long been calling for the U.S. to become more involved in the Russia-Ukraine War, which began two years ago this month. Members of the anti-Russian U.S. Establishment are working on tying aid for Ukraine to legislation designed to address the ongoing border crisis.
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