The US, Ukraine: Playing chicken with Kyiv.

Also: Slovakia, Maldives, North Korea, China, the Caucasus and Central Asia.

A Waterloo, Cassius Marcellus Coolidge, c1906, oil on canvas, New York Public Library.

UNITED STATES. UKRAINE. Playing chicken with Kyiv.

A shutdown is averted but at Zelensky's expense.

Speaker Kevin McCarthy joined Congressional Democrats to pass a stopgap funding bill on Saturday, quickly agreed by the Senate and White House. Hardline Republicans who op…