* “In the 20th and 21st century, freedom had no greater champion than Madeleine Korbel Albright.”–President Joe Biden, at the funeral service for the former secretary of state.
* $3.4 billion: The total military aid that the Biden Administration has pledged to Ukraine since the Russian invasion.
* President Joe Biden has nominated career diplomat Bridget Brink as the next U.S. ambassador to Ukraine. Brink, the current U.S. ambassador to Slovakia, would be replacing Marie Yovanovitch. She was removed in 2019 by then-President Trump. But he had his reasons. Recall that it was Yovanovitch who opposed the efforts of Rudy Giuliani to dig up Hunter Biden dirt.
* Ironic that the U.S. has revived the World War II-era Lend Lease Program to provide arms to Ukraine. The Soviet Union was a Lend Lease recipient during the war.
* According to a Washington Post-ABC poll, President Biden still lingers around a 42 percent approval rating.