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archive.cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/paragraph_3E175AA2-063A-C0C2-3EED-11F522DE26C1@published” data-editable=”text” data-component-name=”paragraph”> For months, Russian President Vladimir Putin has waited and watched, hoping for a fracturing of the remarkable Washington consensus built by President Joe Biden on the need to do everything it takes to defend democracy in Ukraine.
archive.cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/paragraph_9EA528A2-C753-0853-7E39-11F8B9A4812C@published” data-editable=”text” data-component-name=”paragraph”> Now, at last, the first cracks may be appearing.
archive.cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/paragraph_222646E4-3615-E1E8-0D6C-11F8B9A592E3@published” data-editable=”text” data-component-name=”paragraph”> There is no sign that the $18 billion US pipeline of military aid that has helped Ukraine drive back Russia’s onslaught is immediately in danger. But the stirrings of political opposition to an endless US role in the war are growing on both sides of the aisle just two weeks before the November midterms.
archive.cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/paragraph_A6AE6A1D-FBA9-86B9-4CDA-11F8B9A6CFD1@published” data-editable=”text” data-component-name=”paragraph”> Even the slightest hint of a softening of American resolve could comfort Putin as the Kremlin strongman prepares to inflict a painful winter on Ukrainian civilians and Europeans reliant on Russian gas.
archive.cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/paragraph_3EE040E2-C546-DDE6-52A4-11F8B9A7063C@published” data-editable=”text” data-component-name=”paragraph”> In what can only be described as a political debacle on Tuesday,
