Will Saletan: “In the latest Yahoo News survey, completed on Monday, the gap between the parties remains wide. Seventy-six percent of Democrats say the U.S. should take Ukraine’s side; only 57 percent of Republicans agree. Eighty percent of Democrats endorse ‘severe economic sanctions on Russia’; again, only 57 percent of Republicans agree. Two-thirds of Democrats prefer a ‘full Russian defeat’; only 51 percent of Republicans agree.

“When respondents are asked whether ‘It’s in America’s best interests to stop Russia and help Ukraine’ or ‘The conflict is none of America’s business,’ 72 percent of Democrats say we should help Ukraine. Fewer than half of Republicans share that view.”

“Israel believes that a new nuclear agreement between Iran and the powers is a done deal that will be signed within a few weeks, if not days,” Haaretz reports.

“The impression in the political and defense establishment is that the Biden administration is anxious to sign the deal and end the nuclear saga, at least as far as America is concerned, both to stop Iran’s uranium-enrichment activities and in order to focus on more important and urgent issues, chiefly competition with China and the war in Ukraine.”

“Israeli officials admit that their ability to influence Washington’s positions in the negotiations has been negligible in light of President Joe Biden’s desire to reach a deal quickly. The White House paid little attention to Israeli reservations, and U.S. negotiators declined to harden their positions in response to Israeli arguments.”

“The U.S. is sending some of the Soviet-made air defense equipment it secretly acquired decades ago to bolster the Ukrainian military as it seeks to fend off Russian air and missile attacks,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“The systems, which one U.S. official said include the SA-8, are decades old and were obtained by the U.S. so it could examine the technology used by the Russian military and which Moscow has exported around the world.”