(#5561) Ukraine's task of recapturing lost ground while waiting for US aid

      Even today Russia advances on strongholds of Ukraine because Ukraine doesn't have the resources to defend itself properly. Although the coming aid from the US is imminent, it is still late. If this aid had been approved two months ago Ukraine would be on the offensive instead of having to retreat in too many places. This is all due to trump and his hold on the republican party. The republicans get no pass on the blame either for they were the ones cowering to trump. Even though republicans finally did the correct thing and approved the aid it is not without a grave cost to Ukraine and it's fallen brave defenders.
     I will never forget how the republican party played with lives in order to waste time and do practically nothing as a benefit toward themselves. It was all about themselves by the way as the majority of the American people were anguished by the choice of republicans to not protect our allies and democracy from the brute putin who would put the whole of the world under his boot. The cognitive dissonance it took for the republicans to languish about with a haughty nerve in stifling the aid is still unnerving to me. I have no respect for their tactics that cost thousands of Ukrainian lives due to their inability to be good stewards of democracy. The republican failure at being honorable beings is a stain on the rest of us.
     With President Biden signing the aid bill today the process to quickly get the aid to our allies begins in earnest and without delay. Every minute is crucial in the aid finding its way to the front lines and air defense systems. Russia has leveraged the trump led opposition to Ukrainian aid over the last several months almost as if trump and putin designed a strategy of complicitness. Occam's Razor would agree and although difficult to prove at this point could well be the case. Either way the aid will begin to save Ukrainian lives from further destruction at the hands of putin and that in the final analysis is what is important today. There will be a reckoning in the future of the actions of all involved in how each political party behaved and for republicans that reckoning will not be kind!