THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION (AND NATO) may not be supporting Ukraine, but Americans sure as hell are.

MY FAVORITES from PowerLine's Week in Pictures this week:

On Ukraine:

On America:

On the economy (it must be in California):

And Supreme Coronavirus Authority Dr. Anthony Fauci has gone missing....

Now go see them all.

SALENA ZITO: It's the my culture, stupid.

JUST IN TIME FOR THE MID-TERM ELECTIONS: A new Covid variant has arrived.

THE DIPLOMAD ON THE SOTU SPEECH: The Mummy mutters.

IT'S EARLY YET: Dumbest statement of the year.

I'D RATHER HAVE MEAN TWEETS: $5/gallon gas is coming.

SO NOW WE KNOW: Martin Luther King was a white supremacist.

He was merely smart, something which cannot be said about today's credentialed wokesters.

HE'S BEING KIND: We’re governed by grifters and dullards.

RUSSIA WAGES WAR, Pentagon wages gender identity training.

Lede from Instapundit. As noted, you really can't make this stuff up.

THE DIPLOMAD ON UKRAINE: Not much makes sense.

THE MIDNIGHT RIDE OF POLL REVERSE: NYC mayor announces tentative end date to city’s vaccine, school mask mandates.

"The mid-terms are coming! The mid-terms are coming!"

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The crowded road to Kyiv.

One of the oddest commentaries about the Russian invasion of Ukraine is the boilerplate reaction that “borders can’t change in modern Europe” or “this does not happen in the 21st century.”

But why in the world should the 21st century be exempt from the pathologies of the past 20 centuries? Are we smarter than the Romans? More innovative than the Florentines? Do we have more savvy leaders than Lincoln or Churchill? Are they more mellifluous than Demosthenes? Does anyone now remember that some 130,000 were slaughtered just 30 years ago in the former Yugoslavia, as NATO planes bombed Belgrade and nuclear America and Russia almost squared off?

Has globalization, the “rules-based order,” the Davos reset elite, the “international community” so improved the very way humans think that they have rendered obsolete the now ossified ancient idea of deterrence? Will the Kardashians and Beyoncé tweet our pathway to global peace?

How about transnational NGOs? NATO? WHO? The U.N.? Are all their recent records of service proof of our more exalted modern morality? Will some new engineered Wuhan virus alter human nature, end its innate ancient pathologies, and so eliminate war as we knew it? Are we not the League of Nations because Putin is now chair of the Security Council?

In truth, anything can happen to anyone, anywhere, at any time — and has and will until the end of time.

So let us walk down the crowded road to Kyiv.

It's lengthy, but worthy of a careful read.

PowerLine comments.

BLACK HISTORY I learned at CPAC (the Conservative Political Action Conference) 2022.

DEMOCRATS WILL TRY to retroactively change their COVID-19 response; don't let them.

SERIOUS QUESTION: William Buckley (founder of National Review) has been quoted as saying "I would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the telephone directory than by the Harvard University faculty.”

So, serious question: Would you rather be governed by the Biden administration or some 2,000 people randomly selected from some national telephone directory?

I know what my choice would be.

WELL, HE IS A DEMOCRAT: Charlie Crist is such a putz.

IMPRIMIS explains inflation.

PJ MEDIA'S MORNING BRIEFING is being written by Megan Fox this morning -- hilariously.

IN A TEXAS BORDER TOWN, Democrat officials are re-registering as Republicans. Here's the full article in the New York Times.

Unrelated, but my father was born in Sanderson; his father was a railroad engineer for the train line that passed through there.