The good news for Ukrainians is at least they may be able to claim asylum (but only if they can get here)

For a while now it has become apparent that the Republicans were going to block military aid to Ukraine. It has been interesting to watch how the GOP has steadily transformed from a party that defaulted to militarism in defense of Democracy into a party whose default position is hostility to Democracy and sympathy to Putin's Russia. For a brief time in October I thought that the Democrats would be able to get Ukraine funding through by wrapping it together with aid to Israel (a country Republicans are still really gung-ho about aiding militarily. I guess all it takes is willingness to kill Arabs), but instead they were out maneuvered and the Republicans made the debate over a bundle of Ukrainian aid and draconian changes to the immigration asylum system.

So now the Ukrainian aid package seems to be dead. At least I'm glad the Democrats didn't gut immigration law to get it.