In Washington, the war in Ukraine can day-in, day-out feel like a bureaucratic exercise. A question of overseeing huge resources, votes in Congress and overworked diplomats on another flight out of Dulles. More like a war game, for American players, than an actual war. But on Tuesday that spell briefly broke. Russia’s downing of an American Reaper Drone was a sudden reminder of where we have ended up. It hit just at the moment that questions are resurfacing about America’s long term commitment to the war. Is the US going to keep protecting Ukraine all the way — or now, really, just the Democrats?
This week it wasn’t just an American drone that sank to the bottom of the Black Sea.
