The Ukrainian president is fully aware his pleas for US defence equipment might not so easy to come by when Republicans control the house in 2023, writes James Matthews.
He can only hope that Republicans carry the message into the New Year when they take control of the House of Representatives.
The outgoing Speaker of the House of Representatives wrote of an occasion"fraught with meaning" for her because her father had been a member of the House when Winston Churchill addressed a joint session of Congress in 1941, during the Second World War.The warnings around a conflict and its consequences were echoed by US President Biden, too.It is a relationship cemented by mutual interest and a joint news conference exuded chemistry and good humour.
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