There is absolutely a path forward for Ukraine — and a role for us to play in fighting for its freedom from Putin’s predatory neo-Soviet aggression.

First, there are encouraging glimmers from Europe, where there is talk of a massive aid package from the European Union, potentially €700 billion ($731 billion). …

By comparison, the US has provided around $100 billion in support to Ukraine thus far, and Europe has provided another $100 billion.

Second, the picture from Washington is not nearly as monolithically bleak as the mainstream outlets would have you believe. All the headlines and analysis are a little too unanimous: Trump is killing support to Ukraine, and the Republicans in Congress are silent! Run for the hills!

Never mind that the extremely conservative chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Roger Wicker of Mississippi, stated that “Putin is a war criminal who should be in jail for the rest of his life, if not executed.” Never mind that his neighbor, the equally conservative Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana, said “Vladimir Putin is a gangster. He’s a gangster with a black heart. He makes Jeffrey Dahmer look like Mother Teresa. He has Stalin’s taste for blood.”

This does not sound like “silence” to me. And these do not sound like the utterances of appeasers.

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But forget about the words, and let’s focus on the numbers — because what really matters on Capitol Hill is counting votes.

A tabulation of voting records found that 82 Republicans in the House and 21 in the Senate have backed American support for Ukraine. Take these votes, plus solid Democratic blocs (215 in the House, 53 in the Senate), and there are potential supermajorities for funding Ukraine, clearing the two-thirds requirement for overriding presidential vetos (290 votes in the House, 67 in the Senate)….

Slava Ukraine!