The headwinds Ukraine aid face are: a. The irrational, misguided, nationalist, uninformed, gnat-like attention of the populist and religious nationalist parts

The headwinds Ukraine aid face are: a. The irrational, misguided, nationalist, uninformed, gnat-like attention of the populist and religious nationalist parts of the Elephant party b. The utopian, peaceniking of parts of the Donkey party who profess dialog and appeasement will stop Russian tanks or deactivate millions of landmines The reality is that it's cheaper and more strategically useful for America if someone else draws Putin into a war of attrition, giving them another Afghanistan. Either Putin runs out of political capital, money, and/or bodies. The issue is Putin needs an offramp from the war, and preferably an offramp from power to retirement or self-imposed exile.