The Jeffries-Johnson Pact & Ukraine’s $61B Question

Hello, and welcome back to The Best & The Brightest, your Tuesday foreign policy edition. I am still recovering from the White House Correspondents’ Dinner weekend, which is both fun and exhausting.
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Hello, and welcome back to The Best & The Brightest, your Tuesday foreign policy edition. I’m Julia Ioffe and I’ll probably make you feel sad about the world—which, to be clear, is the world’s fault, not mine.

Because I am now in my 40s and this was my 11th time doing this, I am still recovering from the White House Correspondents’ Dinner weekend, which is both fun and exhausting. Some of the most interesting moments/encounters/conversations I had this weekend, in no particular order:

I talked to a friend and Columbia alum who mostly disagrees with the protestors but made an excellent point: Regardless of what you think of the protests and encampments, it’s hard to argue that...

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Ukraine’s $61 Billion Question

For a while, it was easy to blame a dysfunctional Washington for Ukraine’s problems on the battlefield. Now that the supplemental is done and the aid is once again going out the door, the ball is in Ukraine’s court.

JULIA IOFFE

A broken clock is right twice a day, and last week, after seven months of the Biden administration predictions, Congress finally got its act together and passed the Ukraine supplemental. Now, $61 billion in urgently needed aid is on its way to Kyiv, including munitions to push back the advancing Russian military and intercept the Russian missiles and Iranian drones raining down on Ukrainian cities. The Pentagon has had a lot of this equipment staged in Poland, ready to go the minute the supplemental package was signed into law. The question now is...

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