Biden’s Ukraine policy faces a bipartisan squeeze

It’s been clear for months that President Biden’s next requests for economic and military aid to Ukraine would have to navigate choppier waters than those he made in the early phases of Russia’s war. Democrats and Republicans both indicated growing unease back in September, even if the GOP was home to the actual “no” votes.

So it wasn’t an utterly shocking bolt-from-the-blue when about 30 lawmakers from the liberal wing of the Democratic Party pressed Biden in a letter this week to seek direct talks with Moscow in a quest for a “realistic framework...