Ukrainian military personnel fire a self-propelled multiple-rocket system toward a Russian position on the front line in the Donetsk region on Tuesday. (Sergey Kozlov/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)

Ukraine’s breathtaking ingenuity, the latest example of which destroyed or damaged dozens of Russia’s long-range bombers on bases 2,500 miles from Ukraine, is in the service of an unflagging valor reminiscent of Britain’s in 1940, when it was isolated and embattled, with the German army at the English Channel. Ukraine’s resilience is inconvenient for those Americans who are eager to proclaim that the geographically largest nation entirely within Europe is inevitably doomed to defeat, dismemberment and domination.

Such Americans’ unseemly “realism” has them invested in, and even eager for, Ukraine’s dis

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