Last week's on-camera confrontation between President Trump and Vice President JD Vance on the one hand, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on the other, has shocked the world. One especially remarkable feature was Trump's insistence by Trump, and even more that of Vance, that Zelensky had not thanked the U.S. sufficiently for American support for Ukraine after Russia invaded it.

Never mind that Zelensky has thanked the U.S. for its support on numerous occasions — CNN found that he had done so 33 times. Trump's and Vance's complaint was that Zelensky's failure to do so while meeting them at the White House was especially "disrespectful" and perhaps a cause for the U.S. to cut back or even end its aid to Ukraine.

It was the Biden administration that got Congress to support Ukraine — with Republican support at first, but later in the face of Republican opposition. And

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