Hello, and welcome back to The Best & The Brightest, Tuesday foreign policy edition. Before we get to the meat of things—Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit to the Hill later this week—three things…

First, my piece this week is, in part, about American Ukraine fatigue and whether it really exists. But, in listening to Joe Biden’s speech at U.N.G.A., I was struck by how little he spoke about Ukraine this year. Last year’s speech was almost all Ukraine, but this year, it merited a couple mentions in a 20-minute address that was mostly about development. It was, it seemed, a quiet acquiescence to the Ukraine fatigue not in America, but in the so-called Global South, which has its own issues and whose wars and tragedies don’t garner nearly the same amount of attention or aid.

That fatigue and resentment has let China and Russia push their own line, spreading China’s Belt and Road Initiative and selling Russian gas—and making it that much harder for the Biden administration to get...