Opinion | Biden’s Halting Record on Ukraine

President Biden is chiding Congress for not passing more military aid for Ukraine, and he invited President Volodymyr Zelensky to Washington this week to help make the sale. We support more aid, but one reason the President is struggling to persuade Congress is his own uncertain trumpet over the last two years.

The conventional wisdom is that Mr. Biden has helped Ukraine while carefully avoiding a wider war with Russia. But this ignores that Mr. Biden failed to deter the invasion and has hesitated to provide the weapons that could have made a major difference sooner. The war has now become a bloody stalemate that has eroded confidence in Congress that Ukraine can win. For the record, here’s a chronology of Mr. Biden’s hesitation and delay: