The Americans were not the first to visit wartime Kyiv; other leaders have already made the pilgrimage to meet Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president. Nor were the Americans the most flamboyant; they did not go for an impromptu walkabout in the city, as Boris Johnson, Britain’s prime minister, did on April 9th. And some of their visible offerings were limited, among them the belated reopening of the American embassy in Kyiv, and the nomination of an ambassador to the country which, more than a year into Joe Biden’s administration, came inordinately late.Do you think that America is in proxy war with Russia?

