I work with Ukrainians daily, still. I started long before the invasion in February.

When I'd see them in the Zoom calls sitting in their very European, western homes while we all discussed the software issues we were trying to work through, I never considered that a few months later, one of the women I work with would be fleeing to Poland with her baby while her husband stayed behind to fight.

Before the Russians attacked, I was almost amused at how "cute" they were when the attack seemed imminent. "We'll put down the mouse and fight for every inch of our homes." That seemed a little naive to me, to be honest.

These are people who are not like Americans. They don't move from city to city or away from their families. They all live tight-knit family lives and to them, defending their home isn't protecting the local Starbucks. It means really protecting their home with sandbags and molotovs.

So when they were attacked, I wasn't surprised at their reaction. I WAS surprised at how badly they've mangled the Russian army.

Now, my co-worker is back in Lviv, but they're dealing with electricity rations because of Putin's and Iran's despicable attacks on their energy infrastructure.

I'm hardly a gung-ho military guy. I've always been a pacifist.

But I have a little skin in this game. When I invoice the company I work for now for my work, I wait 60 days, a lot more than before the war started, so that the Ukrainians can get paid every week. Because they need all the help they can get.

Somehow, when the electricity is on, they sling code and get work done. These are people who deserve our support, and I think one admirable thing about Biden is that he knows this.

The Ukrainians I know have no interest in a peace "settlement." It will just mean another attack in a year, two, or three from now. Remember Crimea? How did that go? Putin just wanted more.