It's very odd – but very familiar – that so many Americans are worked up about Ukraine, a country most of these Americans probably couldn't have identified on a map without help a month or so ago. Now it's something they obsess about at least as much as they obsessed about the cases! the cases! – which CNN no longer urges them to be obsessed about.

Instead, they  are piously careful to properly spell and pronounce Keeeeeeeeeeeeeeeev – the new spelling of what had been "Kiev" until about a month ago. Of a piece with the prior virtue-signaling one has gotten used to when a TeeVee "reporter" whose native language is English goes out of their way to enunciate Chilll-lay (rather than Chile).