(#4803) Ukrainians are my kind of people!

      I look out over the world and for the first time in my life I see a people united to protect their right to not only exist but to exist in a democracy. I live in a democracy here in the US but the desire to fight for it is not as overwhelmingly being displayed like it is in Ukraine. Previous to the Ukraine invasion, the vaunted Russian army had amassed what looked like a massive force that would be capable of over running Ukraine and bringing the nation to its knees in just hours if not a few days. Well what has transpired is instead a fierce defense by Ukrainians with the will to die for their country en masse.
     An amazing reversal of the most likely outcome has become the brightest light for democracy the world has seen in generations. The Statue of Liberty should be shipped over to Snake Island where the Ukrainian defenders flipped off the mighty Russian warship. Ukraine is now a living legend that has not given up at all and is now in a position to drive out the Russian horde from it's borders. There is much to do and nothing is a given but to bet against Ukraine right now is to be undeniably close minded. The fighting spirit plus the determination to withstand devastation and death is the heroic stuff that legends are built upon.
     Like the story of the Greeks at Thermopylae, the outmanned force under King Leonidas, a similar event is happening now in real time in Ukraine. Simply put, the Ukrainian people are as noble a determined force as has ever existed in the annals of our human history. What the Ukrainian defenders are doing to the mighty Russian army is implausible yet inescapable and although putin is working hard to hide the facts of his continuing losses, the word is getting out. For me, those who are willing to die for their way of life are my kind of people. Everyone else is just living off of the courage of others. Those I can do without in my life because honor, and courage, is where real living is.