Celebrating July Fourth, we should reflect on Patrick Henry’s call, “Give me liberty or give me death,” and simultaneously on our growing Orwellian legacy in Ukraine. The irreducible essence must forever be our own security. But Ukraine is not a charity case. Russia long ago declared the destruction of Ukraine as pivotal to its long-articulated goal of ensuring America’s demise. Why? How? 

Who remembers that “Make America Great Again” was Ronald Reagan’s 1980 campaign slogan? Western media and a priesthood of experts choked over his epochal “Evil Empire” speech before the National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida. But Reagan stood fast and understood the centrality of Ukraine