"Americans back home are not entering a geographic Russia, of course, or a zone of Russian occupation; but we are hurtling towards having a Russian-type regime."

I have the strange feeling, this week in Kyiv, that Ukrainians are living freer lives now than Americans. At a book store where I was talking to a Ukrainian philosopher about freedom, a young woman put her hand on my arm and said “sorry about the U.S.”

I argue that it’s already there - a Russian style regime is in place, and a Russian style selfish and stupid population put it there. Worse though because of the freedom to choose without persecution that was abandoned.