Yes, it has been a ruse. It hasn't ever really been about the border. It was always about turtles. You see, the turtle lobby fooled the people of Kentucky into electing one of their own to the senate, saying he was a Republican, and he was charged with watching over the affairs of the nation to protect turtle interests and make a lot of money. He is uninterested in finishing Trump's wall because elderly American turtles are big and cannot crawl through the spaces to get to the juvenile Mexican turtles they want to slowly rape on the other side. Sending quazillions of dollars to Ukraine is a perfect solution. Mitch McTurtle (for that is his true name) can truthfully say, "Oops, there's no more money for building a wall," and if some happens to turn up, he quietly sends it with the rest overseas, knowing how much will be funneled back to him after a good wash-up. Thus the elderly American turtles can keep raping the juvenile Mexican turtles, and the Kentucky turtles who hold the tether connected Mitch's tiny, little balls shall be pleased and cease their yanking. Of course, McTurtle doesn't worry about any turtles that might get killed from the war in Ukraine because he applies what he learned from his human colleagues in the Senate, and he silences his conscience the same way they do. Mitch chooses to know that foreign turtles are never good turtles. They are always bad turtles. It doesn't matter if they get their shells blown to bits by someone we paid to blow things to bits because they are bad turtles anyway.

This makes as much sense as whatever excuse Mitch McConnel comes up with for betraying the American people.