Is This the Moment Ukraine Saves Democracy?

“Russians will ‘see our faces, not our backs.’”
– Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

About five years ago while I was preparing for a speech, one of the other speakers approached me, an historian who studied the large, Hegelian dialectics of history — the swings from extremes. Jointly worried about what was then a 10- and now 15-year decline of democracies around the world, she explained that historically, the only way that there has been a turn-around and a return to more normalized times is through extremes — deprivations…