Russia is winning its vicious war upon Ukraine — with no little help from its Republican bedfellows.

Ukraine’s 2023 offensive fizzled for lack of firepower. While President Biden did great at rallying the Western alliance against Russia’s aggression, he was just too squeamish about providing the weaponry really needed. Now they’re running out of ammunition, and our aid pipeline is exhausted, unless Congress votes to renew it, as Biden seeks.

A bipartisan Congressional majority favors this, but can’t get it to a vote because of obstructionism by the House Republican creep squad led by Bible-thumping Speaker Mike Johnson. They said they wouldn’t support helping Ukraine unless Democrats agree to stringent Border and immigration restrictions.

Linking those two issues never made sense, it was a scam to block Ukraine aid, given that immigration reform has defied resolution for three decades. But guess what, President Biden, still actually believing in bipartisan compromise, said okay, let’s make a deal including border security if that’s what it takes.

The Senate did come up with a deal giving Republicans much that they’d demanded. Our border regime was already not only a mess but a cruel travesty toward migrants, and this would have made it even harsher. Yet Biden and Democrats were prepared to accept this as the price for saving Ukraine.

But it turned out House Republicans were just screwing with us. Not even seeing the details of the Senate deal, Speaker Johnson declared it “dead on arrival” in the House.

Why?? There’s no actual rationale. Just like there’s none for Republicans blocking Ukraine aid to begin with. As to the border, the raw truth is that Republicans do not want the problem fixed, they just want to keep exploiting it to fire up their xenophobe voters.

Ridiculously accusing Democrats of seeking “open borders” — while here it’s actually Republicans torpedoing a measure to make our border much more closed! Egged on by Trump, whose rhetoric blatantly shows he just wants this phony issue as a stick to bash Biden and Democrats. Denouncing the Senate deal as one of “open borders” too — reality be damned. Standard Trump.

And he does not want to help Ukraine. Seeing Putin as a role model.

Now Republican officialdom is all falling into line endorsing Trump for president, in what look like hostage videos. Many of these contemptible cowards actually despise Trump, knowing how bad he is. But dare not cross Republican voters who refuse to know it.

The Republican party is a towering inferno of hypocrisy, dishonesty and wickedness. Its voters are ignorant fools. America, and the world, hang by a thread.