Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Washington on Tuesday in yet another attempt to extract billions upon billions of dollars in aid for his nation's war with Russia. 

What began as a sit-down in the Oval Office ended with Joe Biden giving a presser trashing the very people he needs to try to bring on board. Namely, Republican House and Senate members who do not want to send more money overseas to Ukraine without first addressing America's historic border crisis. 

Biden took the podium not to persuade but to rant, and it perfectly exposed the kindergarten level of logic he operates with. 

Biden says securing our border is an "extreme Republican partisan agenda" pic.twitter.com/PkaxfLzxAO

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BIDEN: Holding Ukraine funding hostage in an attempt to force through an extreme Republican partisan agenda on the border is not how it works. We need real solutions.

On the contrary, that's exactly how it works because Biden is not a dictator. If he'd like to gain enough support from the nation's legislature, including the GOP-led House, then he has to compromise on other priorities. It is also not "holding Ukraine funding hostage" to demand the securing of America's border before we spend another $100 billion on a border halfway across the globe.

Ukraine is not part of the United States. It is not owed anything. Biden speaks as if Ukraine funding is just a normal part of the appropriations process. It is not, and if he'd like to secure more money for Zelensky and company, then he's going to have to get serious about the border. 

He's not going to get serious, though. Instead, Biden is going to continue to demagogue the issue. 

Joe Biden says "a host of a Kremlin-run-show" praised Republicans for blocking Ukraine aid. pic.twitter.com/EBcsDGvmwJ

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Foreign policy decisions are not made based on what some Russian talk show says or doesn't say. That's a moronic, immature suggestion. The only reason the president is bringing that up is to make the disgusting claim that Republicans are somehow in cahoots with Vladimir Putin if they don't bow down and do exactly what Biden and Zelensky want. Foreign policy decisions should be based on the facts on the ground, not childish guilt-by-association claims. 

Speaking of childish, it wouldn't be a Biden presser without his brain returning to that level of functionality multiple times. Actually, I suspect one of my young kids could read their notes better than this.

Biden gets lost reading his pre-written script pic.twitter.com/NLezUCIP3i

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BIDEN: "We also need Ukraine to make changes to fix the broken immigration system here—" pic.twitter.com/LQh6xJrMS9

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BIDEN: "It doesn't lessen the responsibility, going after Hamas, to innocent Palestinians and Hamas" pic.twitter.com/i1XF6wI5kx

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He has his script right in front of him, and he still can't make it through. Saying Ukraine needs to fix the American immigration system? Describing Hamas as innocent? Just another day at the office for Joe Biden. 

Returning to the main theme of the presser, one can support funding Ukraine, though I'm personally at the point where I want a real strategic plan before another dollar is spent, and "as long as it takes" is not a strategy. Regardless, Republicans were given Congress to offer a counter to Biden's failed policies, not rubber stamp them. Every time the president throws out a new insult, the amount required to fix the border should go up. Make him eat his words, though he probably won't even remember saying them.