A year into Vladimir Putin’s second war on Ukraine, one of G.K. Chesterton’s most powerful and profound observations keeps coming to mind. “The true soldier,” Chesterton explained, “fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.” Against all odds, a people’s army of students and soldiers, farmers and techies, shopkeepers and artists, young women and old men has beaten back, ground down, outwitted, outmaneuvered and outfought Putin’s invasion force—in large part because they love their families, their fellow Ukrainians, their freedom and their homeland.