"You're removing our freedoms and stomping on our Constitutional rights by these Communist dictatorship orders or laws you want to mandate," another woman said.

Ann Whitney, an essential worker, told commissioners she doesn't wear a mask in the same way she doesn't wear underwear.

"Things gotta breathe," she said.

These are the very people turning Ukraine into a vast cemetery, visited by widows, orphans, and amputees in camouflage. A country where the slogan "We will avenge them" has become a bitter irony—because it justifies new sacrifices with the old ones, over and over again, until there's no one left to do the avenging.

And people like Mark Levin will still be saying, "Ukraine is winning." Of course they will. From Washington's perspective, it's the perfect war: Russia is being weakened without the United States losing a single soldier.