One year.

A three-day operation. Short, glorious victory. Our boys will crush those decadent, corrupt, effeminate, *Westernized* [hiss! spit!] Ukrainians like the scum they are, then bring them back into the fold of Mother Russia once they realize the error of their ways. Why, we're not invading anyone! We're *liberating* them from their (((oppressors))) is what we're doing. Soon we will again be one people under one T/s/a/r/ President, as God intended.

Didn't quite work out that way, did it, Vladdie baby?

If #Russia won the war today (voiceover: Russia did not, in fact, win the war) then still Ukraine's magnificent fight would stand for all time as a monument to the human need for freedom. Zelenskyy's government has made its share of mistakes, sure. Every government does. They're *Ukrainian* mistakes, made by a Ukrainian government that assumed office through free and fair election, and accountable to the Ukrainian people. No one else—most especially not the Grand Duke of Moscow.

Every principle I swore to defend on behalf of the United States of #America ... is being put into practice in #Ukraine, right now. Had I had to do the same, against much the same enemy, there's a really good chance none of us would be here right now. We have the opportunity to uphold those principles *and* make that worst of all possible worlds less likely.

No, Ukraine is not morally pure. I guess no combatant in any war has been, ever. But the morality they do show, and monstrosity they face, make this the clearest conflict of good vs. evil in my lifetime.

And while we can and should be grateful that it's not our cities being turned to rubble, our fields ground under tank treads, **our children stolen**—we have those who would cheerfully do the same here at home, and pledge their allegiance to the invader half a world away. You know who and what they are.

Decent people would always prefer not to fight at all. We have to keep fighting those who are not decent, on all fronts. Ukraine shows we can fight and *win*.

For the last year, and the year to come, and however long it takes. Слава Україні.