President Joe Biden is not even trying to hide his disgust.
He's now blaming Ukraine's defeats in Russia's bitter war with the country directly on Republicans, who have refused to pass his $60 billion extension to the desperately needed lifeline for President Volodymyr Zelensky's armed forces.
The White House said Saturday that "Ukraine's military was forced to withdraw from Avdiivka after Ukrainian soldiers had to ration ammunition due to dwindling supplies as a result of congressional inaction, resulting in Russia's first notable gains in months."
Biden assured Zelensky of continuing US support. But given hardening GOP sentiment, he may be unable to honor his pledge.
The Senate has passed a standalone bill moving forward aid for Ukraine and Israel -- despite opposition from a bunch of pro-Donald Trump senators. But Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson is so far refusing to bring it up.
Fueling Biden's fury, Johnson has packed the House off for two weeks vacation while frontline Ukrainian soldiers ration bullets.
The willingness of some GOP lawmakers to walk away from Ukraine and to excuse Trump's berating of allies reflects shifting political forces in the US, partly dictated by the ex-president's "America First" nationalism.
In a statement on Monday, Trump appeared to blame Biden for the death of Russian opposition figure and outspoken Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny in one of President Vladimir Putin's labor camps and drew an apparent analogy between his own legal problems and the persecution of the courageous Russian dissident.
Trump recently said he'd invite Russia to invade NATO nations that fell short of non-binding targets on defense spending.
Trump's bizarre deference to Putin is not new: his genuflecting was a frequent theme of his presidency.
But it is even more striking now, given the Russian leader's status as an accused war criminal who launched an unprovoked invasion of a democratic neighbor and who deliberately targeted civilians in the largest European land war since the Nazis set the continent ablaze.
After propping up Ukraine for two years with billions of dollars in aid and ammunition, a US decision to turn its back and leave it to Putin would represent a stunning change of course.
And if he were to desert NATO, Trump would be turning his back on America's greatest ever foreign policy achievement -- guaranteeing 80 years of peace in a continent stained by centuries of bloodshed.
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