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But there isn’t much we can do, given the reality that a major US party is increasingly pro-Putin. That’s a constraint on what we can do.

We might eventually get to a place where we can dramatically increase support for Ukraine, but there’s a lot that has to happen first.

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The question that kicked off this discussion was "What do you want [the] world to do?" In that context it's pretty obvious what it means to say that the US Congress could approve more aid to Ukraine. Of course some people don't want to do that. That's why it remains something that we could do rather than something that we're doing.

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But the US Congress can no more approve significant aid to Ukraine than it can make pi == 3.

In a platonic ideal world, sure. But in the world as it stands, this is not possible. The constraints on the system prohibit it as surely as if the Constitution specifically forbade it.

[foldr]

That's an odd take. It's quite possible that the bill will eventually get through the House.