SIMON JENKINS
The Johnson joke isn’t funny any more
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The war for Ukraine gets darker and more terrifying, and now a new front has opened up a long way away – in a US Republican party whose biggest players are itching to abandon Ukraine to its fate.
Proof of the conflict’s deepening horror came last week, with the destruction of the Kakhovka dam in Russian-controlled Ukraine, releasing a body of water so massive it’s best imagined not as a reservoir but as a great lake. The resulting flood caused thousands to abandon their homes and