WASHINGTON, July 29 -- Lindsey Graham landed in Washington just hours after leaving Kyiv. He did not make it to the Capitol. The senator who had spent three years as the most persistent Republican voice for arming Ukraine - making ten trips to the country since Russia launched its military operation in 2022 - died within hours of touchdown, and by Tuesday, the cathedral on Massachusetts Avenue was filling with the people his positions had touched most. Volodymyr Zelensky sat five rows behind Donald Trump.

Zelensky's row, the fifth, held a particular compression of the moment. He was seated alongside Acting Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Finnish President Alexander Stubb. Four rows...