Is the Key to Unlocking Ukraine Aid Annoying All the Right People?

Let’s be frank: The obstacles that have prevented Congress from providing additional material support to Ukraine’s war of resistance against Russian domination have little to do with the war itself — at least not if we’re to take the complaints emphasized by Ukraine skeptics at face value. Their opposition to Kyiv’s cause is an extension of their domestic political objectives.

It’s rare to hear the (few) members of Congress who oppose the provision of lethal arms to Ukraine discuss in much detail the U.S. interests that would be imperiled by providing Kyiv with the weapons and ammunition it needs. That is relegated to a throat-clearing aside, if it is addressed at all, before the inevitable pivot to the domestic issues American policy-makers should be focused on to the exclusion of all others.