Were I a political officer at Ukraine‘s Washington embassy, my memo to the ambassador this week would be titled either, “Are we working for Putin now?” or “What the f*** are we doing?”

Whenever the United Kingdom’s wartime prime minister Winston Churchill came to America, he was laser-focused on one objective: securing maximal American support for the defeat of Adolf Hitler. Putting his non-insignificant ego aside, Churchill employed charm, history, and oratory to persuade Americans and Congress that defeating Nazism was America’s cause as much as Britain’s. By doing so, Churchill saved his nation.