It is a disgrace that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has had to come to Washington today, for the second time, to beg for aid for his embattled country.

Some issues are complicated. Some are simple. This one’s a no-brainer. What’s the connection between immigration on America’s southern border and the war in Ukraine?

Nothing. Absolutely nothing at all. Except that a handful of Senate Republicans would rather play politics at home than uphold America’s historic role as the world’s chief defender of democracy.

This one’s personal for me. In 1988, toward the end of the Soviet Union, my wife and I and our two sons joined a month-long Peace Walk of 200 Americans and 200 residents of the Soviet republics, walking across Ukraine from Odessa to Kiev. For us Americans, especially, it was a heady experience. To our surprise, as we walked through remote villages of the Ukrainian........

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