Ukraine’s president’s expectations of meeting a generous US Congress withered.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky came tin-cupping to Washington Dec. 12, landing in the middle of a donnybrook between the Biden administration and congressional leaders skeptical about more funding for Kyiv. Call it bad timing. Call it a sea change in Congress’ appetite to cough up more taxpayer dollars for what seems to be a stalemate in Ukraine’s battle to secure its border against the invading Russian army. Meanwhile, Joe Biden’s homeland security policy has produced its own issues on the US southern border.
Wherever the blame falls, the Ukrainian president was disappointed. Biden’s bumper sticker sloganeering “as long as it takes” support for the Kyiv government is no substitute for a practicable end to the fighting and a strategy to get there. “And what I’ve told the White…
