What a time for lawmakers to play games with Ukraine.

Kyiv is at a critical point in its war with Russia, in the midst of a vital counteroffensive that’s seen some success yet has faced fierce resistance.

The tide of the war may hang in the balance.

Yet in its wisdom, the House — under GOP control, no less — thinks this is the moment to pause Ukrainian aid.

Are lawmakers out of their minds?

President Joe Biden has been wrong about nearly everything, even his too-little-too-late approach to Ukraine, but he was certainly right Sunday to insist Congress “stop playing games” and OK more cash — pronto.

That came after Congress passed a continuing resolution to keep the government funded for another 45 days that omitted aid for Kyiv.

We get it: Many GOPers hoped to avoid a shutdown, knowing the press would skewer them for it, and figured they could pass new Ukraine funding in a separate bill later.

Yet now House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is using the Ukraine issue to force the issue of securing the US-Mexican border.

“The priority for me is America and our borders,” he puffed.

Well, of course: Something must be done ASAP about the border.

But, hello? This is the United States: We can walk and chew gum at the same time.

McCarthy is just catering to the growing number of short-sighted and demagogic members of his caucus who recklessly want to shut the spigot on Ukraine funding for reasons that are hard to fathom.

Is it due to a real intellectual discourse about America’s place in the present and future world, or is it just because it is trendy and gets you more likes on Elon Musk’s X?

Is there a constituency of American voters against helping to defend Ukraine against a tyrant because of deeply held beliefs about failed ‘”orever wars” or is it because they’ve been alarmed by a constant diet of scaremongering over nuclear war and a persistent false equivalency with border and welfare spending?

A dollar spent on Ukraine does not directly rob a dollar from stopping the fentanyl crisis or from a pensioner’s social security.

Some of the ‘rebels’, led by Rep. Matt Gaetz, age 2, are threatening to strip McCarthy of his speakership.

McCarthy, in appeasing them, has sown panic.

“I have a hope that this will not be [a] definitive decision,” fretted European Union foreign-policy chief Josep Borrell, after Congress’ (in)action.

What kind of message does Congress think it’s sending Vladimir Putin? That if he hangs on long enough, Americans will go wobbly and abandon Ukraine — and then it’ll be his for the taking?

What about other strongmen and wannabe-expansionist regimes, like China? They’re watching, too.

In his recent visit, President Volodymyr Zelensky told US lawmakers that if Ukraine doesn’t get additional aid, it’ll lose the war.

Russia may then feel emboldened and look to gobble up more territory, which could trigger an even bigger war that costs America not only far more money, but lives.

Isn’t the GOP the party that cares about national security?

Letting Russia win would also mean flushing the $113 billion already spent on Ukraine down the drain.

No one favors giving notoriously corrupt Ukraine a blank check, of course. But it’s reportedly made progress in fighting corruption. More important, that can’t be an excuse to let Russia win.

By the way, Republicans aren’t the only ones to blame here: Clearly the deal to hold up aid involved Democrats as well.

Indeed, the fact that an overwhelming number of lawmakers in both houses still favor continuing aid points up Congress’ utter dysfunction.

Biden, too, could be speaking out more, rather than bloviating about fake “threats to democracy” or Bidenomics.

Look: America has a lot invested in its ally, and that’s helped it survive so far; we’ve come too far to give up now.

As the world’s sole superpower, it’s up to America to prevent what would be one of history’s biggest disasters: letting Russia win.

Keep that aid flowing.