Why Ukrainians Are So Passionate About This War?

I think there's no question that Ukrainians are passionately patriotic and this is something I've wondered about over the course of talking to all these ordinary Ukrainians who are risking their lives every day. Do you get the sense that they see themselves as part of that larger fight for democracy like how President Biden kind of frames it? What's driving that motivation to stay put in the middle of a war and pitch in however they can? It's because we're an agrarian society. And so the idea of our land is deeply ingrained into the very fiber of our being. Without their land they don't have anything. Exactly. You don't do there, don't doing there. Another part of this