Specifically regarding the border, the only solutions are legislative - serious work to be done there, which will require both parties to come to the table with serious intent. Too bad it was scuttled in 2014.I can’t stand Russia or Putin. I get the concern, but other things concern me way more at the moment is all. At some point we have to make a choice. Can’t send them money forever.
As for Ukraine, I do believe that the failure to win that war would represent an existential threat to Europe and the Western liberal order that was established in 1944 and from which we have all benefitted.