Liberty Lives in Trenches, Not Think Tanks
Let’s stop pretending. The ideals inked into the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence—life, liberty, resistance to tyranny—aren’t being defended in Washington, D.C. They’re being fought for in the cratered earth of Ukraine. It’s not Americans dying for freedom anymore. It’s Ukrainians. For many Americans, “freedom” is just a slogan, a catchy phrase, a reason to light fireworks once a year. In Ukraine, freedom means deciding whether to carry a rifle or carry your family’s coffin. It means a mother staying behind to care for the wounded, a teenager flying a drone over enemy armor with little more than courage and duct tape, and going to sleep every night to the sound of shelling, knowing you might not wake up—and doing it anyway. ...