We assign the people who fight our wars to a special category.
We call them “soldiers,” and one of the primal effects of placing them in uniform and training them to kill is to set them off from the rest of society.
But when you watch the tumultuous documentary “Breaking Point: The War for Democracy in Ukraine,” you see a war — a full-fledged revolution — fought by ordinary citizens.
They are men and women, without military backgrounds, who have made a decision: that safety, stability, even the love they feel for their families is not as important as preserving their country’s freedom.
They didn’t plan to be soldiers — war was something they chose, and something that happened to them.They’re engaged in a battle with a quintessential oppressor: the army of Russian troops sent in to crush them by Vladimir Putin, who has made it his mission not
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