US Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) — who announced last week he would not run for president this year, as many suspected — on Monday, February 19 emphasized the importance of passing the foreign aid bill that includes funding for Ukraine against Russia. “You’ve said before that you believe [Russian President Vladimir] Putin recognizes the strength of US allies better than Donald Trump actually does,” CNN host Kaitlan Collins said to the West Virginia lawmaker, asking, “I wonder what you think it says about the strength of the US as an ally, if House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) refuses to bring that…