American officials concede there is nothing on the horizon that could match the power of a new, $60 billion congressional appropriation to support its war against Russian aggression.

A year ago, when Washington and much of Europe were still awash in optimism that Ukraine was on the verge of repelling Russia from its territory, it seemed inconceivable that the United States would turn its back on the victim of Vladimir V. Putin’s aggression.

Now, even as Senate Democrats try to salvage an aid package for Ukraine, that possibility remains real. And the political moment feels a long way from 14 months ago when President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine stood before a joint session of Congress, wearing his signature drab green sweater, and basked in a minute-long standing ovation.

The turnaround has surprised the White House. Even if the Senate manages to advance military aid, there are still plenty of reasons to doubt that the money will come through, including deep opposition among Republicans in the House and former President Donald J. Trump’s push for a more isolationist stance.

President Biden’s aides insist they are not yet scrambling for other options.

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  • Paragone@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    When, not if, unfortunately.

    Morale is a “fuel” required for war, whether that war is just or unjust/wrong, and the people who don’t understand that outnumber the people who do, by … orders-of-magnitude?

    It’s the same with one’s immune-system: if one’s immune-system won’t fight-against a pathogen, but instead decides that accommodating it would cost less, now you’re a symbiote with it.

    Politically inevitable that emotions turn, particularly when you aren’t in a democracy, but rather in a representative-republic pretending to be a democracy…

    that simple highjacking, of the issues being decided by al electorate rather than the citizens, is an exponent on the politicking controlling national-fate.