Tom Friedman: “As we strategy the primary anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine — and the ferocious Ukrainian response backed by a U.S.-led Western coalition — the next query urgently wants answering: How is it that on Feb. 23, 2022, just about nobody in America was arguing that it was in our core nationwide curiosity to enter into an oblique battle with Russia to cease it from overrunning Ukraine, a rustic most People couldn’t discover on a map in 10 tries?”

“And but now, almost a yr later, polls present stable (although barely shrinking) American majorities for backing Ukraine with arms and support, regardless that this dangers a direct battle with Vladimir Putin’s Russia.”

“That’s a head-snapping shift in U.S. public opinion. Absolutely it’s partly explicable by the truth that no U.S. fight forces are in Ukraine, so it feels as if all that we’re risking, for now, is arms and treasure — whereas the total brunt of the battle is borne by Ukrainians.”

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