The former Attorney General of Ukraine has been fighting in the trenches near Bakhmut this whole time. He’s 58 years old and a cancer survivor. Obviously, nobody made him enlist. This is a guy who clearly had options. And he chose to do his patriotic duty.

There are leading scientists, opera singers, Supreme Court justices and TV stars fighting on the Ukrainian side. This is the power of the nation-state, the only source of real patriotism.