Just because you get a donation does not mean one is "paid off". I happen to like Mike Johnson on many topics and his approach. Is he perfect? No. But this continued internecine fighting on the R side, is helping no one - and Trump saw it quickly to his credit here.
On Ukraine, we need to get to a strategy of figuring out of giving Putin a win, breaking off four of the east regions that have a very complicated history (even Ben Shapiro had this in an excellent piece on the history of Ukraine) and then wrap up this war. Do you admit the rump state into Nato? perhaps. We are essentially treating them that way. Give Russia those war devastated areas. They will not be rebuilt in many of our lifetimes.
I like Mike far more than Kevin M. Mike is a guy I would have been friends with at Sewanee even if our religious backgrounds are quite different (Episcopalian versus Baptist, I believe).