Ukraine is in a fight for existence, not just existence of a people and a culture, but for the right to self-determination.  A fight for freedom!  This is the same fight that the United States Capitol Police were in on January 6, 2021.  The fight to preserve democracy.  In that moment, it was every bit as existencial as facing Russian tanks driven to attack by an autocrat with a megalomania messiah complex… Putin, believing that he can change history and reverse the will of the Ukrainian people.   This is not about a threat that Ukraine posed to Russia, this is about raw naked aggression and power and his threat to use his nuclear weapons to keep others from interfering.   He justifies his actions with his own big lies, he justifies on the basis of power.   This is a cousin of the autocratic, lying,  megalomania that was Trump’s attempt to stay in power and banish the will of the people in democratic America.  You wonder why Trump idolizes Putin…. well you see it on display right now.   Anti-democratic autocrats hate government of and by the people.   We should be learning a great lesson right now.
God Help Ukraine! God Save democracy!